Hans Lutzelburger (died June 1526 ), also known as Hans Frank, is a German woodcarver who was considered one of the best in his time. He carved engravings , but, as far as is known, he himself was not an artist . This carver is best known for his virtuoso work on a series of 41 "beautifully cut" tiny engravings, Dance of Death , created by Hans Holbein the Younger , which Lutzelburger left unfinished after his death.
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It is known that Hans Lutzelburger was active and already from about 1516 established himself well in Augsburg , where he signed the reverse side of engravings and worked under the direction of Jost de Negker , another great woodcarver of that period, on print projects for Maximilian I (Holy Emperor Roman Empire) with the participation of Albrecht Durer , Hans Burgkmire and other artists. In 1522, his “first undoubted masterpiece” was published - “The Battle of Naked People and Peasants” by Masters N. Kh. (Possibly Nikolai Khogenberg) [6] , at least one edition of which contained an additional block in the margins below with his the name “FURMSCHNIDER” and the date on the plate are a very unusual feature. This also includes portraits of Lutzelburger and the nude artist, with the exception of the tissues covering their genitals, pointing to the plate.
Hans Lutzelburger has been active since about 1522 in Basel (possibly after the period in Mainz ), where he died in 1526, apparently young - he was over thirty or about forty. Lutzelburger and Holbein signed a contract with the publisher Jacob Faber for several series of biblical illustrations (for publications of the translation of Martin Luther ), as well as for The Dance of Death. They also worked for a major publisher Johann Froben . Hans Lutzelburger finished only 41 engravings from the Death Dance series before his death. They were published in the form of engravings in the early 1520s , sometimes mistakenly called “evidence”, and when in 1538 these works were published as a book with the addition of poems attributed only to Lutzelburger, it was obviously forgotten that Holbein was involved in work. Other engravings, carved by different artists, probably not only Holbein, were added to later editions. These engravings became part of Holbein's estate after his death.
It seems that in recent years, Hans Lutzelburger has done so much work in Basel that he could have had assistants, although there is no documentary evidence of this. Perhaps he was also responsible for creating the most impressive work of Basel artist Urs Graf - his series of 16 engravings depicting standard-bearers made in a “ black manner ”.
Literature
- Bartrum, Giulia , German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550 ; British Museum Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7141-2604-7 [7]
- Hans Lützelburger and the Master NH Campbell Dodgson , The Burlington Magazine , Vol. 10, No. 47 (Feb., 1907), pp. 319–322 JSTOR [8]
- David Landau & Peter Parshall, The Renaissance Print , Yale, 1996, ISBN 0-300-06883-2 [9]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 102560722 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Project Gutenberg - 1971.
- ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisKunstner.do?kunstnerId=35074
- ↑ https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/51446
- ↑ Collection search (English) (neopr.) ? . British Museum. Date of treatment June 15, 2019.
- ↑ Giulia Bartrum. German Renaissance prints 1490-1550 . - Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, 1995 .-- 252 p. - ISBN 9780714126043 .
- ↑ Campbell Dodgson. Hans Lützelburger and the Master NH // The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. - 1907. - T. 10 , no. 47 . - S. 319–322 . - ISSN 0951-0788 .
- ↑ David Landau, Peter W. Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 . - Yale University Press, 1994 .-- 453 p. - ISBN 9780300068832 .