Hans Fries (painter)

Hans Fries (c. 1465 in Fribourg, Switzerland – c. 1523 in Berne, Switzerland) was a Swiss painter before the Reformation.

He was son of a baker and studied with the Bernese painter Heinrich Bichler. After a stay in Basel in the year 1487/88, he returned to his hometown. Here he held the official post of city painter in the first decade of the 16th Century and was in addition a councilman. During this time he designed and painted many altars. Around 1510 he moved to Berne where he lived until his death.

Selected works

* "Christ carrying the Cross", 1502, canvas, 81×164 cm, Berne Kunstmuseum (Art Museum)
* Wing of a St. John altar, outside: "St. John Drinks the Poison", c. 1507, wood, 130×32 cm, Zürich, Swiss National Museum
*Wing of a St. John altar, inside: "Two Visions of St. John", c. 1507, wood, 130×32 cm, Zürich, Swiss National Museum
*"St. Barbara" (Altar wing), 1503, wood, 98×67 cm, Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
*"St. Christopher" (Altar wing), 1503, wood, 98×67 cm, Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
*"St. Margareta" (Altar wing), c. 1505, wood, 97×30 cm, Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
*"St. Nikolaus" (Altar wing), c. 1505, wood, 97×30 cm, Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
*"Allegory of the Cross", c. 1515, wood, 148×98 cm, Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
*from a John the Baptist Triptych, left wing outside: "Sermon of John the Baptist before Herod", 1514, Wood, 124×76 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum
*from a John the Baptist Triptych, left wing insdie: "The Beheading of John the Baptist", 1514, wood, 124×76 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum
*from a St. John Triptych, right wing inside: "John the Evangelist in Boiling Oil", 1514, wood, 125×75 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum

References

*Kelterborn-Haemmerli, Anna (1927) "Die Kunst des Hans Fries" Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte No. 245, J.H. Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg, pp. 1-22;
*Myers, Bernard Samuel (ed.) (1969) "Fries, Hans (1465?-1523)" "McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art" McGraw-Hill, New York;

External links

*SIKART|4022832
* [http://www.arthistoricum.net/index.php?id=276&ausgabe=2002_11&review_id=3033 "Hans Fries. Ein Maler an der Zeitenwende"] in German