Hans Springinklee

Hans Springinklee (* 1490-1495 in Nuremberg, † 1540 ) was a Nuremberg painter and graphic artist, who is known for his woodcuts. He is regarded as a student and colleague of Albrecht Dürer.

Life

There are few testimonials from Hans Springinklees life. Neither his exact birth or death date are preserved, so that can only surmise that he probably in Nuremberg saw the light of day 1490-1495 and after 1524 - at the latest by 1540 - died. The first written mention of his name dated to the year 1520: In one of the Nuremberg Council Decision him the order is placed to beautify the rooms of the Imperial Castle in preparation for a visit of Charles V.. 1547 reported the write master Johann Neudörffer the Elder, Springinklee have lived in Dürer's house and there also learned his craft. First woodcuts have been handed down from the year 1512 or 1513; after 1524, however, lacks any evidence of Springinklee. Presumably, he has left in this period Nuremberg; on September 10, 1527 his two daughters were mentioned, which he had left behind; they had been given three years ago in the care of a Mehlwägers, and the father of the painter who Gürtler Jörg Springinklee, paid this 3 Gulden maintenance. In ecclesiastical registers the name of the painter is not, but saith the astronomer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr in 1730 from the fact that Springinklee have not lived until 1540 in Nuremberg.

Work

Graphic arts

As an employee Dürer Springinklee was instrumental in the emergence of some woodcuts in honor of Emperor Maximilian I., with whom he had entrusted the Nuremberg masters (including the Triumphal Arch of Emperor Maximilian I ). However Springinklees work here is not clearly delineate likely he transferred sketches Dürer on the wooden floor, ( tearing called this activity ) was then printed with the. A first sheet with his monogram (HSK ) is the Miracle of the Holy Wilgeffortis of 1513th For the same year she published a woodcut titled Emperor Maximilian honors the memory of the forefathers, he is in the so -called White Kunig, a splendidly equipped biography Maximilian I.

From 1516 Springinklee occurs primarily as an illustrator of Bibles out, are published by Anton Koberger. This also printed several editions of the prayer book Hortulus animae (German Seelengärtlein ), arise for the more than 100 woodcuts. Mainly Old Testament motifs such as the Saint Jerome (1520 ) or the birth of Eve (1521 ) carry Springinklees initials.

Long time kept to a woodcut of 1522, entitled Abundantia (also referred to as a Bacchante ) for the last Dürer clearly the students to associate work. Probably but he is also the author of a 1,524 to predating evangelical confession image in the parish church of Rosstal.

Art historian raise Springinklees fine hatching out and - as a decisive characteristic - relatively coarse shades, which can blur lines of flight. It was not until his late work he probably can emancipate itself from the complicated, detailed design of Dürer 's style.

Painting

As a painter Springinklee is relatively unknown. In the vicinity of Nuremberg, however, some altarpieces and paintings are in churches from his hand, such as the Gothic winged altar of St. Peter and Paul Church in Poppenreuth ( Saint Lawrence and Saint Stephen are the motives ). The Kunstmuseum Basel is a drawing from 1514, a Man ​​of Sorrows ( brush in white on dark brown koloriertem underground ). At the Nuremberg Imperial Castle is beyond some frescoes Springinklees have received.