Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann
Hans (John ) Ruprecht ( Rupprecht ) Hoffmann, Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann called the Elder (c. 1545 probably in Worms, † 1616 in Trier ) was a German sculptor and stonemason.
Life and work
Hoffmann received his teaching sculptor probably Dietrich Schroder in Mainz and his journeyman years at Johann von Trarbach in simmering. To 1566, he moved to Trier. Already in 1581 he was elected to the guild master stonemason guilds. With his first wife, Catherine ( † before 1582) he had at least 3 children. In 1583 he married Anna Örthin († 1589 ) and in 1590 as the third wife (Anna ) Margaretha, daughter of Theis cooking Becker from Cochem.
Hoffmann's special skills proves in his portrait sculptures that seem extraordinarily alive and facially convincing case to operate accurately and are of high quality craftsmanship. He led a significant sculpture workshop, which quickly won from its foundation in importance and grew with success. 1617 died Hoffmann, the workshop was succeeded by his son Heinrich Hoffmann ( 1576-1623 ) and the grandson of Johann Ruprecht Hoffmann ( Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann the Younger ) continued.
In his time was Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann of the main exponents of Mannerism west of the Rhine, especially the Trier Late Renaissance. Among his major artistic works include tombs, epitaphs, altarpiece, the Domkanzel and Petrusbrunnen in Trier. Hoffmann combined stylistic features of the late Renaissance with those of the Floris style, but took advantage of this, other Mannerist elements and developed his own artistic " handwriting ". This culminated in his interpretation of the late Mannerist art, well ahead of the next took the Baroque style.
The 1570-1572 probably created on behalf of the Trier cathedral chapter pulpit in the nave of the Trier Cathedral shows a complex iconographic image program ( works of mercy, World Court, the instruction of the apostles on the Mount of Olives, evangelists, five senses, Annunciation, Nativity, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ), which is to be interpreted in the context of historical and religious development in Trier in the 16th century.
Works
Main Market Trier:
- Peter Fountain ( 1595 )
High Cathedral of St. Peter in Trier:
- Domkanzel (1570-1572)
- Cloister altar: marble relief (1596, now Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier)
- Trinity Altar ( Altar grave for Archbishop James III. Von Eltz ) ( 1597)
- Altar in the Old Church of St. Aldegund on the Mosel (1601 ) restored
- Grave altar for Archbishop Johann von Schönberg ( Schonenburg ) and St. John the Evangelist Altar (1602 )
- Allerheiligenaltar ( grave altar for archbishop Lothar von Metternich ) ( 1614)
Church of Our Lady Trier:
- Grave altar for Hugo by Schonenburg († 1581)
St. Anthony Trier:
- Epitaph for Mayor Cornelius Schott and Wife ( 1607)
St. Gangolf (Trier):
- Sandstone relief " Transfiguration of Christ" ( 1600)
- Marie Altar (1602 /3)
Other works
- Sankt Salvator Basilica ( Prüm ): stone pulpit (before 1590)
- Öhringen (Württemberg ): Epitaph for Eberhard von Hohenlohe- Waldenburg.