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III.—HANS SPEINGINKLEE.
Hans Springinklee, drauglitsman and illuminator; pupil of
Diirer, in wliose Louse ke lived at Nuremberg; worked about
1512-1522.1 2
Authorities :—
Neudorfer, “Nachrichteu von Kiinstlern und Werkleuten in Kiirn-
berg,” ed. Lochner (“ Quellenschriften fiir Kunstgeschichte,” x),
Wien, 1875, p. 144.
Bartsch, P.G. vii, 323.
Passavant, P G. iii, 239.
Nagler, K.L. xvii, 184; Mon. iii, 643, no. 1541.
Butsch, “ Bucher-Ornamentik,” i, 28, 65.
Muther, “ Biicher-Illustration,” i, 177.
W. Schmidt in Chronik, fiir vervielfaltigende Kunst, iv, 9, Wien,
1891, and Bepertorium, xvi, 308, xvii, 39.
Ko existing catalogue of Springinklee’s woodcuts is even approxi-
mately complete, and none kas been attempted since recent criticism
kas made it possible in a measure to disentangle tke work of indi-
vidual pupils of Diirer from tke mass of woodcuts attributed by
various autliors to tke master kimself. Springinklee contributed
largely, botk as Diirer’s assistant and as an independent designer, to
tke execution of tke Triumplial Procession and Triumpkal Arck of
Maximilian; lre was also associated witli Diirer in producing a series
of matliematical and astronomical diagrams for Stabius, tke majority
of wkick are only extant in modern impressions (1781) from tke
1 I cannot trace tlie statement, to be found in xnost lexicons and kandbooks, that
Springinklee died in or about 1540, to any earlier autliority than Doppelmayr (1730),
-who -wrote (“Hist. Naclir.” p. 190), “ Hanns Spring in Klee . . . starb um a. 1540.”
Neudorfer (1547), the sole early authority for Springinklee’s biography, does not mention
the date of his death. The date currently alleged since Doppelmayr’s time may have
been suggested by the fact that a series of woodcuts of the Apostles by Springinklee
(B. 52-56) was published for the first time (so far as is known) in 1539. These very
■woodcuts, however, are dated 1520 and 1521. None of his woodcuts bear a later date
than 1522, and I have found no illustrations by him published for the first time after
the year 1523, with the exception of the Apostles already mentioned, and two sets of
illustrations in the Vulgate printed by Peypus in 1530. In this edition all the cuts as
far as Paralipomenon II are new. They are freely copied, on a smaller scale [48 x 57],
from the cycle of illustrations used at Lyons, 1518-1522; the cuts to Genesis appear to
be by Springinklee, the rest by Schon. From Esdras I to the end of the O.T. the old
cuts are used again, with the exception of five diagrams in the Major Prophets and
three new cuts in the Minor Prophets. These are by Springinklee. The blocks show
some signs of wear, and I conjecture that the new illustrations to the Prophets were
prepared for the German O.T. of 1524, of which only three parts (to the Song of Songs)
were published. All the other illustrations in the 1530 Vulgate are certainly of eariier
date, with the possible exception of the small illustrations in the earlier books. The
first dated work of Springinklee is a Iioroscope of 1512 (H. 2106, P. iii, 215, 295).
2 B
III.—HANS SPEINGINKLEE.
Hans Springinklee, drauglitsman and illuminator; pupil of
Diirer, in wliose Louse ke lived at Nuremberg; worked about
1512-1522.1 2
Authorities :—
Neudorfer, “Nachrichteu von Kiinstlern und Werkleuten in Kiirn-
berg,” ed. Lochner (“ Quellenschriften fiir Kunstgeschichte,” x),
Wien, 1875, p. 144.
Bartsch, P.G. vii, 323.
Passavant, P G. iii, 239.
Nagler, K.L. xvii, 184; Mon. iii, 643, no. 1541.
Butsch, “ Bucher-Ornamentik,” i, 28, 65.
Muther, “ Biicher-Illustration,” i, 177.
W. Schmidt in Chronik, fiir vervielfaltigende Kunst, iv, 9, Wien,
1891, and Bepertorium, xvi, 308, xvii, 39.
Ko existing catalogue of Springinklee’s woodcuts is even approxi-
mately complete, and none kas been attempted since recent criticism
kas made it possible in a measure to disentangle tke work of indi-
vidual pupils of Diirer from tke mass of woodcuts attributed by
various autliors to tke master kimself. Springinklee contributed
largely, botk as Diirer’s assistant and as an independent designer, to
tke execution of tke Triumplial Procession and Triumpkal Arck of
Maximilian; lre was also associated witli Diirer in producing a series
of matliematical and astronomical diagrams for Stabius, tke majority
of wkick are only extant in modern impressions (1781) from tke
1 I cannot trace tlie statement, to be found in xnost lexicons and kandbooks, that
Springinklee died in or about 1540, to any earlier autliority than Doppelmayr (1730),
-who -wrote (“Hist. Naclir.” p. 190), “ Hanns Spring in Klee . . . starb um a. 1540.”
Neudorfer (1547), the sole early authority for Springinklee’s biography, does not mention
the date of his death. The date currently alleged since Doppelmayr’s time may have
been suggested by the fact that a series of woodcuts of the Apostles by Springinklee
(B. 52-56) was published for the first time (so far as is known) in 1539. These very
■woodcuts, however, are dated 1520 and 1521. None of his woodcuts bear a later date
than 1522, and I have found no illustrations by him published for the first time after
the year 1523, with the exception of the Apostles already mentioned, and two sets of
illustrations in the Vulgate printed by Peypus in 1530. In this edition all the cuts as
far as Paralipomenon II are new. They are freely copied, on a smaller scale [48 x 57],
from the cycle of illustrations used at Lyons, 1518-1522; the cuts to Genesis appear to
be by Springinklee, the rest by Schon. From Esdras I to the end of the O.T. the old
cuts are used again, with the exception of five diagrams in the Major Prophets and
three new cuts in the Minor Prophets. These are by Springinklee. The blocks show
some signs of wear, and I conjecture that the new illustrations to the Prophets were
prepared for the German O.T. of 1524, of which only three parts (to the Song of Songs)
were published. All the other illustrations in the 1530 Vulgate are certainly of eariier
date, with the possible exception of the small illustrations in the earlier books. The
first dated work of Springinklee is a Iioroscope of 1512 (H. 2106, P. iii, 215, 295).
2 B