The PTSS collection

This website lists the works of art and objects of the Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung (PTSS) of Schaffhausen. Most of the objects listed are on permanent loan to the Museum zu Allerheiligen or the Schaffhausen City Library.

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Scheibenriss-Umrahmung mit Allianzwappen Matthäus Zollikofer und Judith Peyer, St. Gallen

Hieronymus Lang the elder (about 1520–1582), ascribed, 1570 Biography

Hieronymus Lang the elder

In Schaffhausen from 1541. In the same year he married Elsbet Kloter, and was accepted into the Boatmens guild and became a citizen of the city of Schaffhausen. In 1544 he acquired the house "Zur Löwengrube" in Münstergasse. He seems to have been the first in Schaffhausen to sign his designs for glass paintings. An extensive oeuvre of glass panels and the sketches for his designs has survived from the founder of the Lang artist dynasty in Schaffhausen.

Design sketch to surround the coats of arms of Matthäus Zollikofer and Judith Peyer, St. Gallen

Black ink wash, Ink wash on paper, sheet size: 38 x 26.7 cm

Provenance

1970 – heute: Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung, Schaffhausen
1970: Antiquariat August Laube, Zürich
um 1910 – unbekannt: Otto Wessner (1851 – 1921), St. Gallen
unbekannt: Friedrich Bürki (1819 – 1880), Bern
1833 – 1876: Dietrich Schindler (1795 – 1876), Zürich
unbekannt – vermutlich 1833: Johann Wilhelm Veith (1758 – 1833), Schaffhausen

Exhibitions

20.10.1985: Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen

Literature

Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (Hg.): Meisterwerke und Kleinode. Sammlung der Peyerschen Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung, Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010 (Kataloge Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen 20), S. 111.
Lang, Paul / Rapp-Buri, Anna / Jezler, Peter: Die Peyersche Tobias Stimmer-Stiftung im Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1985 (Kataloge Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen 10), S. 27, Nr. 19.
Thöne, Friedrich: Die Zeichnungen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Zürich: Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1972 (Kataloge Schweizer Museen und Sammlungen 1), S. 22f, Nr. 10.
August Laube & Sohn, Zürich: Schweizer Künstler, Schweizer Glasscheiben. Auktionskatalog, 03.06.1970, Nr. 1019.

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Filter Drawings Sketches Hieronymus Lang the elder Black ink wash Ink wash on paper

Leinenstickerei mit Allianzwappen Peyer - Ziegler und Jagdszenen — Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Peyer - Ziegler and a hunting scene
Unknown, 1572 White and blue thread on white linen, embroidered

Wollstickerei (Wandbehang) mit Allianzwappen Peyer - Peyer im Hof und Szenen aus der Tobias-Geschichte — Wool embroidery (Wall hanging) with coats of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof and scenes from the Tobias story
Unknown, nach 1593 / um 1612 Wool, Metal threads, Pearls, Human hair, embroidered

Leinenstickerei mit Allianzwappen Ab Egg-Wepfer — Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Egg-wipfer
Unknown, 1607 White and brown thread on white linen, embroidered

Leinenstickarbeit mit Allianzwappen Peyer - Peyer im Hof und Personifikationen der Vier Jahreszeiten — Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof and personification of the four seasons
Unknown, 1608 Coloured linen thread on beige linen, Bobbin lace, Silk thread, stitched
The production and use of linen and wool embroidery was very popular in Schaffhausen in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Stimmer Stiftung owns four such works from its own family collection. The wall hanging with the personifications of the four seasons comes from the household goods of Hans Conrad Peyer (1569-1623) and Elisabeth Peyer im Hof

Wollstickerei mit Blumenranken und Allianzwappen von Waldkirch-Im Thurn — Wool embroidery with tendrils of flowers and Waldkirch-Im Thurn coat of arms
Unknown, 1622 Coloured wools on dark brown wool cloth, embroidered

Wollstickerei mit Allianzwappen Peyer - Peyer im Hof — Wool embroidery with the coat of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof
Unknown, 1638 Coloured wools on dark brown wool cloth, embroidered

Leinenstickerei mit gesticktem Tierdekor und Wappenallianz Felix Ramsauer — Linen embroidery with stitched animals and coat of arms for Felix Ramsauer (born 1550) and Katharina Peyer (born 1546)
Unknown, 1592

The PTSS collection

Hieronymus Lang the elder

Design sketch to surround the coats of arms of Matthäus Zollikofer and Judith Peyer, St. Gallen

Provenance

Exhibitions

Literature

Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Peyer - Ziegler and a hunting scene

Wool embroidery (Wall hanging) with coats of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof and scenes from the Tobias story

Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Egg-wipfer

Linen embroidery with coat of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof and personification of the four seasons

Wool embroidery with tendrils of flowers and Waldkirch-Im Thurn coat of arms

Wool embroidery with the coat of arms for Peyer - Peyer im Hof

Linen embroidery with stitched animals and coat of arms for Felix Ramsauer (born 1550) and Katharina Peyer (born 1546)