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'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.

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Selected works

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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

★ ''Hans Fries. Ein Maler an der Zeitenwende'' in German;