Peter Hemmel of Andlau (c. 1420–1506) was a late Gothic stained glass artist, whose workshop in Strasbourg was active between 1447 and 1501. Sometimes working alone and sometimes in collaboration with other stained-glass artists in the city, it mainly supplied religious buildings in what is now Austria, southern and eastern Germany, eastern France and northern Italy, though none of Hemmel's windows survive in Andlau itself. Hemmel was born in

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, now in the

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region of France, but became a citizen of Strasbourg as well as a landowner and counsellor. A document of 1466 refers to him marrying the widow of the painter

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. Paul Frankl: ''Peter Hemmel - Glasmaler von Andlau''. Berlin. 1956 He died in Strasbourg. Hemmel used templates drawing on the work of

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and

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. He used two-coloured and shaded glass in bright iron reds, bright blues, black-enamel and silver-yellow (produced with

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) to reproduce brocades, textiles and faces. He is also notable for his attention to details, such as in animals and plants, as seen in the Guilds Window in Ulm Minster.

Works

Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or ''Cathédrale de Strasbourg'', german: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg or ''Straßburger Münster''), also known as Strasbourg ...

* St William's Church, Strasbourg * Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, now in the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame * The choir of

Ulm Minster Ulm Minster (german: Ulmer Münster) is a Lutheran church located in Ulm, State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is currently the tallest church in the world. The church is the fifth-tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a ...

** The Council Window, commissioned by the city council in 1480 ** The Guilds Window, commissioned by the city guilds in 1480 *

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- the Volckamer Window, commissioned by Peter Volckamer in 1480 * St. George's Collegiate Church, Tubingen - the window in the choir, 1475 * Augsburg Cathedral * Frauenkirche, Munich * Stiftskirche Nonnberg, Salzburg * Freiburger Münster *

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* Milan Cathedral (several windows) * Lady chapel in Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité,

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* Mariä Krönung, pilgrimage church in Lautenbach Image:Paris MNMA Vitrail Fleckenstein719.JPG, A Hemmel window at the

Musée de Cluny The Musée de Cluny ("Cluny Museum", ), also known as Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes et hôtel de Cluny ("National Museum of the Middle Ages – Cluny thermal baths and mansion"), is a museum of the Middle Ages in Paris, Fr ...

File:Rundscheibe KGM AE566 Versuchte Steinigung Christi.jpg, A Hemmel window at the

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File:Obernai StPierre-Paul 68.JPG, An original Hemmel window integrated into a larger 19th-century

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window, Église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul,

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References

External links

Bibliography

* Hermann Baumhauer, Joachim Feist: ''Das Ulmer Münster und seine Kunstwerke'', Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart und Aalen 1977, * Erhard John: ''Die Glasmalereien im Ulmer Münster'', Langenau 1999, * Lawrence Lee; George Seddon; Francis Stephens: ''Die Welt der Glasfenster - Zwölf Jahrhunderte abendländischer Glasmalerei in über 500 Farbbildern'', Farbbilder von: Sonia Halliday, Laura Lushington, Orbis Verlag, München 1992, * Wolfgang Lipp: ''Begleiter durch das Ulmer Münster'', Langenau 1999, * Heinz Merten
''Andlau, Peter von.''
In: '' Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (NDB). Band 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, , S. 270–272 * ADAC-Reiseführer: Elsass von 2005 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hemmel Von Andlau, Peter 1420 births 1506 deaths French stained glass artists and manufacturers People from Bas-Rhin