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PANGRATZ BERNHAUBT, called SCHWENNTER
(1481 Nurenberg 1555)
Leaf from coat of arms
(double-sided): Recto: Alliance coat of arms: Burrer / Schwennter.,
verso: Nötelein / Schwennter;
Ink and wash in brown, opaque colours and lead white, approx. 266 x
171 mm. Watermark: star consisting of six lines on the end of a
discontinued line forming horizontally arched loops.
Schwennter was chronicler, humanist, man of letters (Apologia
poetarum, Historia Herculis) and illustrator friend of the Vischer
brothers
The coat of arms probably originated soon after the death of the
youngest son of the elder daughter Barbara, his grandson Sebastian,
on 19th August 1550 – this, at least, is the last date listed.
Sebastian Burrer, who was born in 1518, was a Protestant and
musician (brass instrumentalist). He died in 1568.
Bonifatius Nötelein or Nöttelein, who was born in 1521, lived in
Nuremberg from 1521 until his death in 1582. Between 1560 and 1568,
he wrote the second and third volumes of the Nuremberg Topography,
which had been started by his father.
Literature on Pangratz Bernhaubt, known as Schwennter:
Dieter Wuttke, Pangratz Bernhaubt, genannt Schwenter - Der
Nürnberger Humanist und Freund der Gebrüder Vischer. In:
Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, Bd. 50
(Nürnberg 1960). Pages 222 – 257, plates 1 and 2. |
