Museum Tucher Mansion and Hirsvogel Hall

Portraits and other Paintings

With its sumptuous furnishings, the Tucher Mansion demonstrates the lifestyle of the noble and influential Tucher family. Outstanding portraits and other paintings can be found everywhere in the house: Michael Wolgemut, Albrecht Dürer's teacher, painted the portrait of Hans VI Tucher, who was famous for writing a book on his travels to the Holy Land. Dürer's pupil, Hans Schäufelein, created the remarkable diptych portraying the builders of the Tucher Mansion, Lorenz and Katharina Tucher. The epitaph for Adelheid Tucher, dated 1483, is impressive for its remarkably precise topographic depiction of the City of Jerusalem.

Portraits by Nuremberg Renaissance painters, Lorenz Strauch, Nicolaus Juvenel and Nicolaus Neufchatel, and by famous Munich artist of the late 19th century, Franz von Lenbach, as well as a large Baroque altar painting showing an Ecce Homo Scene created by Matthäus Merian, supplement the collection.

Furniture and Tapestries

The last contribution by the important renaissance artist and woodcarver, Peter Flötner, to the furnishings of Tucher Mansion may be seen in the Dining Hall - a pillared cupboard made in 1537. In addition, all the rooms are equipped with exquisite furniture - cupboards, tables, chests and sideboards - from four centuries. The walls are decorated with fine landscape tapestries and woven tapestries with plant and animal motifs from Flanders and France, all manufactured in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Faïence, Glass and Goldsmith's Art

The Tucher Mansion boasts a rich treasure of high-quality glass goblets and beakers, Delft faïence as well as products from the faïence manufacturers established in Nuremberg in 1711.

The large Banqueting Hall on the Second Floor displays some example of the arts of the finest Nuremberg goldsmiths: a fire-gilded silver wedding goblet - the so-called "Doppelscheuer" - and the famous eight-part Tucher Ewers which were created in Nuremberg and then enamelled in Limoges. Both were created by the most important Nuremberg goldsmith of the 16th century, Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585).

The original fittings of the Banqueting Hall also included the glass windows with representations from tales of Gods and heroes of Antiquity, created in 1540 in the workshop of Nuremberg glass painter, Augustin Hirsvogel.

The "Annunciation Window" from the workshop of Veit Hirsvogel which can be seen in the entrance hall, and the four coloured glass panes by Zurich artist, Christoph Murer, depicting the Parable of the Prodigal Son (created in 1610) displayed in the first floor dining room were, however, not part of the Tucher Mansion's original furnishings. They were originally created for the Garden Chapel or for the House Chapel of the Tucher residence in Grasersgasse.