Tobias Stimmer

Origin

Tobias tuner was born as the eldest son of a beautiful writer and German schoolmaster in Schaffhausen. Four of his 10 siblings are as independent artists detectable Abel tuner ( 1542-1606 ) as a painter and etcher, Gideon tuner ( 1545-1578 ) painting and drawing for stained glass, Hans Christoffel tuner ( 1549-1578 ) as a form cutter and Josiah tuner ( 1544 - after 1574 ) as a painter.

Artistic Career

1564 created the portrait of the Zurich physician and naturalist Conrad Gesner and the double portrait of the Zurich Pannervorträgers Jacob Schwyzer and his wife Elsbeth Lochmann. 1567 tuner portrayed the mayor of Zurich Bernard of Cham. As of 1568 created commissions for illustrations, Basel and Strasbourg publisher. In the same year Stimmer created for Hans von Waldkirch its paintings of the house knighted in Schaffhausen. 1569-1570 remained Tobias tuner in Como, where he loomed the famous collection of portraits of the historian Paolo Giovio on behalf of the Basel publisher Pietro Perna. After returning settled Tobias tuner in Strasbourg. There he worked as an illustrator for Johann Bernhard Jobin species and large scale. 1571-1574 designed Tobias tuner on behalf of the mathematician and astronomer Conrad Dasypodius the housing of the astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral. He was also responsible for drafting the figures. From 1575 published by Perna in Basel Portrait consequences according to the drawings, the tuner Tobias had made in Como. Jacob Burckhardt referred to the importance of portraits ( as Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cesare Borgia, Charles the Bold ), all the more since the originals have been lost to some extent. 1576 published by the Basel publisher Thomas Guarin designed by Tobias Tuners and Johann fish pictures edited Bible, the culmination of the art of Tobias tuner as an illustrator. From 1576 to 1578 Tobias tuner painted from the ceiling of the new castle in Baden -Baden with 13 allegorical figures. Mid- January 1584, died Tobias tuner in Strasbourg at the age of 45 years.

Importance

Tobias tuner applies after Holbein as the most prominent artists of his time. Despite its qualitative performances his work is comparatively little known. One reason for this may be the high rate of loss of his works in the wars of the last centuries. The last major loss of seven paintings from the collection of the Museum of All Saints occurred as a result of bombing of Schaffhausen on April 1, 1944, Allied aircraft. The holdings of the former monastery of All Saints could be expanded in recent years, but again.

Book editions

  • Tobias tuner: Comedia: a nüw Schimpff spil of two boys Eeleute like sey in fürfallender tear both seitz behave / provided by TSVSM, . [ edited for the first time. Jakob Oeri ]. [ Jacob Huber ], Frauenfeld 1891.
  • Tobias tuner: Comedia of two young married couples provided by Tobiam tuner of Schaffhausen, painter Anno 1580, the December 22. Now again made ​​to the web by Georg Witkowski. Haessel, Leipzig 1915.
  • Tobias tuner: New artificial figures of biblical history / thoroughly torn by Tobia Tuners and understood to gotsfürchtiger ergetzung devout Hertzen with like rhymes by JFGM Basel 1576 ( ND Munich 1923).
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