Tobias Stimmer
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Tobias Stimmer (7 April[1] 1539 – 4 January[2] 1584), was a Swiss painter and illustrator.
He was born in Schaffhausen, and was active in Schaffhausen, Strasbourg and Baden-Baden as a wall and portrait painter. He made a great number of drawings for woodcuts (Bible scenes, allegories, etc.) which were published by the printer Sigmund Feyerabend in Frankfurt am Main.
Stimmer followed Hans Holbein the Younger, but developed his own mannerism. Among his wall paintings remain the "House zum Ritter" in Schaffhausen, although this was actually much restored and changed.
His most famous work is undoubtedly the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock. He died in Strasbourg
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- Hans Lieb: Tobias Stimmers Geburt und Tod, in Schaffhauser Beiträge zur Geschichte, vol 67, pages 255-262, 1990.
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- Tobias Stimmer in the German National Library catalogue
- Pictures of the House zum Ritter in the Schaffhausen city archives
- Mannerism article in the Columbia encyclopedia: http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Manierism
