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Veit Hirschvogel (1461-1525)
Aliases: Veit (1461) Hirschvogel; Veit (der Ältere) Hirschvogel; Veit (the elder) Hirschvogel; Veit (the elder) Hirsfogel; Veit (der Ältere) Hirsvogel; Veit (the elder) Hirsvogel
Professions: Glass painter
Veit Hirschvogel Biography
(b Nuremberg, 1461; d Nuremberg, 24 Dec 1525). Glass painter. He directed his workshop during the last great flowering of stained glass production in Nuremberg (c. 1485–1526). Around 1500 the workshop shifted from an old-fashioned style, based on the stained glass of the Strasbourg master Peter Hemmel von Andlau, to one based on the art of Albrecht Dürer. Dürer, along with his students Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Baldung, Hans Schäufelein and Sebald Beham, provided the workshop with numerous designs, and his drawing and graphic styles became its trademark. Due to Dürer’s influence, many of the advances made in panel painting were applied to stained glass. He replaced the compartmentalized and decorative approach with a more monumental conception where a composition with imposing figures in an illusionistic setting unifies all the panels of a window. In the Pfinzing window (c. 1515; Nuremberg, Sebalduskirche), for instance, a monumental Renaissance-style triumphal arch spans the entire window and unites 17 figures spatially and compositionally. The workshop’s technical mastery of the application of washes and particularly of silver stain to create effects from yellow to red also endowed its stained glass with increased spatial illusion and translucency.
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