Original title: Bohemian finds of stove tiles with the signature "HANS BERMAN"
Authors: Soukup, Michal B. ; Soukupová, M. ; Šrejber, A.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Forum Archaeologiae Post-Mediaevalis, Praha (CZ), 2010-03-23 / 2010-03-24
Year: 2012
Language: eng
Abstract: The article looks at one phenomenon of material culture of 16th century in Europe - stove tiles produced by Hans Berman workshops in central Germany. The finds of renaissance stove tiles with the signature and the date - "HANS BERMAN 155X" or "HANS BERMAN 1562" are known from the area of today's Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Sweden (south), the island part of Denmark and Latvia (Riga). From Bohemia and Moravia these stove tiles were not yet published. In 2007 in collection of Regional Museum in Teplice two complexes of fragments of stove tiles with signature HANS BERMAN 155X were detected. Later similar fragments have been found on the other Bohemian sites. Most of them are located in northern Bohemia (Bílina, Krupka, Prosetice, Teplice), and two sites in eastern part of the country (Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Pecka). Frontal parts of these stove tiles are decorated with 6 various reliefs - "Adam and Eve and the Tree of Life", "Crucifixion of Jesus Christ", portraits - "elector Maurice of Saxony", "August of Saxony", an "unknown nobleman" and "Architecture - church window". It has been newly shown, that production of Hans Berman workshop was in 16th century also distributed to the Bohemia.
Keywords: Hans Berman; Renaissance; stove tile
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z80020508 (CEP)
Host item entry: Written and iconographic sources in post-medieval archaeology, ISBN 978-80-904408-1-4, ISSN 1805-0514

Institution: Institute of Archaeology, Prague AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0209288

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