Hans Sachs

: This article refers to the poet. For other people of the same name, see Hans Sachs (disambiguation).

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Hans Sachs (September 5, 1494 - January 19, 1576) was a German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker.

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Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg. His father was a tailor. He attended the Lateinschule in Nuremberg. When he was 14 he took up an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. After the apprenticeship, at age 17, he went on his "wanderjahre", that is, wandering about and working here and there, for five years. It is said that he decided to become a mastersinger in Innsbruck 1513. In the same year, he took up a kind of apprenticeship to become a mastersinger at Munich. Lienhard Nunnenbeck (a linen weaver) was his master. In 1516 he settled in Nuremberg and stayed for the rest of his life.

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Hans Sachs related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Artist at Work Painting Hans Sachs	Portrait of Hans Holbein	Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen	Hans Holbein the Younger Engraved by Bartholomaus Huebner 1790
Portrait Miniature of Count Hans Axel Von Fersen (1755-1810)	The King Makes a Promise to Hans the Hedgehog	Apparatus For Healing Arm Fractures Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540	Amputation Illustration from Feldtbuch Der Wundartzney by Hans Von Gersdorff c.1540
The Old Witch Combing Gerda's Hair in 'The Snow Queen' from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström: Berg-Ejvind Och Hans Hustru 1918	Meeting at the Field of the Cloth of Gold 7th June 1520 after Hans Holbein the Elder (1460/5-1524)