Tobias Stimmer Explained

Tobias Stimmer
Birth Date:7 April 1539
Birth Place:Schaffhausen, Old Swiss Confederacy
Death Place:Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire
Nationality:Swiss
Movement:Renaissance
Known For:Portraits, Illustrations
Notable Works:Portrait of Jacob Schwytzer and his wife Elsbeth Lochmann

Tobias Stimmer (7 April 1539[1] – 4 January 1584[2]) was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock.

Biography

He was born in Schaffhausen, and was active in Schaffhausen, Strasbourg and Baden-Baden as a wall and portrait painter. He made a great number of drawings for woodcuts (Bible scenes, allegories, etc.) which were published by the printer Sigmund Feyerabend in Frankfurt am Main, and Bernhart Jobin in Strasbourg.

Stimmer followed Hans Holbein the Younger, but developed his own mannerism. Among his wall paintings remain the "House zum Ritter" in Schaffhausen, although this was actually much restored and changed.

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Footnotes

  1. He was not born on April 17, see Lieb 1990.
  2. In the old style.

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