Biography Herr Stoss Freitas
Herr Stoss Freight (Stoss) (1450) – a famous German sculptor, was born about 1450 in 1477 went to Krakow, where in 1489 – 1497 years. repeatedly appeared as the guild master, the richer there, in 1496 he returned to Nuremberg. In 1504, caught in counterfeiting currency document, was punished by the imposition of stamps on both cheeks, in 1505 – 1506 years. not just sitting in jail, but in 1507 received from the Emperor. Maximilian I of forgiveness and restoration of their civil rights. He died in 1533, reaching a ripe old age and blinded for a few years before his death. He is famous mainly works, carved from wood and painted. Finest surviving his works – the big altar hinged at the Mariinsky Rude. In Krakow, with the image in the middle of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and her heavenly coronation, and on the wings – the episodes of Savior's earthly life and the lives of the Blessed Virgin (1477 – 1484), a luxurious tomb Kor. Casimir I of Krakow cathedral, carved out against the custom of the artist, of red granite (1492), tomb of bishop in Oleschinskogo gnezenskom cathedral, carved icon in the church of St. Nuremberg. Lawrence, depicting the Annunciation, surrounded by a wreath of roses, among which are represented in medallions "Seven Joys of the Virgin" and seven other New Testament scenes (1518), a statue of the Madonna (as referred to. "Velserovsky altar") in Nuremberg. Rude. Virgin Mary, "Behold the man" in geylsbronskoy Rude. and "Crucifixion" in Nuremberg. Rude. St. Sebaldus. All these sculptures are different, beyond their technical skill performance, the figures generosity and sincerity expressed in the religious feelings, but draping them resemble thick starched and form a sharp, angular creases. Sh attributed couches in the choir Cracow Rude. Virgin and neutselevshaya model on which P. Fisher made the famous shrine of St. Sebaldus, located in Nuremberg Rude. name of this saint. In addition to sculptures Sh worked well and engraved: known nine of his prints with religious content, and two sheets of engraved ornament, such as those and others are now extremely rare. – Avg. Bergau, "Der Bildschnitzer Veit Stoss und seine Werke" (Nuremberg, 1877).