Tobias Stimmer (7 April 1539 – 4 January 1584In the old style.) was a

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painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock.

Biography

He was born in

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, and was active in Schaffhausen, Strasbourg and

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as a wall and portrait painter. He made a great number of drawings for

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s (Bible scenes, allegories, etc.) which were published by the printer Sigmund Feyerabend in

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, and Bernhart Jobin in Strasbourg. Stimmer followed

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered o ...

, but developed his own

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. Among his wall paintings remain the "House zum Ritter" in Schaffhausen, although this was actually much restored and changed.

References

*Hans Lieb: ''Tobias Stimmers Geburt und Tod'', in ''Schaffhauser Beiträge zur Geschichte'', vol 67, pages 255-262, 1990.

Footnotes

External links

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Pictures of the House zum Ritter in the Schaffhausen city archivesMannerism article
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