Hans Bock (painter)

{{short description|German painter}}

File:Hans Bock – Felix Platter 1584.jpg, painting from 1584.]]

Hans Bock (1550, in Saverne – 16 March 1624, in Basel){{Cite web|url=http://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4022868|title=Bock, Hans (der Ältere)|work=SIKART}} was a 16th Century German painter and draughtsman. He flourished at Basel where he executed several large frescoes, which won him much fame.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092716962|title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=1: A-K|last=Bryan|first=Michael|year=1886|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924092716962/page/n157 142]|publisher=London: George Bell & Sons}}

Bock is likely to have been working in Basel as early as 1570; in 1572 he paid for membership to the local guild of painters. He was awarded citizenship to Basel on the 18th of July, 1572.{{Cite book|url=https://augustlaube.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/catalogues/66.pdf|title=Zeichnung/Drawings 2012|year=2012|pages=46|publisher=August Laube}} In 1571 and 1572, while still being trained by {{III|Hans Hug Kleber|lt=Hans Hug Kluber|de}}, he designed two murals for the house of Theodor Zwinger, but it is not known if one was executed.{{Cite web |last=Möhle |first=Martin |date=2010 |title=Das Zwingerhaus am Nadelberg |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=bzg-002:2010:110::336 |website=E-Periodica |publisher=Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde |pages=219–226}}

From 1588 to 1591, he cooperated with the scholar Basilius Amerbach in the excavation of the Roman theater Augusta Raurica, providing illustrations of the newly excavated site.{{Cite journal|last=Schmitt|first=Lothar|date=2001|title= Education and Learning among Sixteenth-Century German Artists |journal= Studies in the History of Art |volume=60|pages=72–81|jstor=42622762}} He is likely to have educated the young Joseph Heintz in draughtsmanship.{{Cite book|last=Turner|first=Nicholas|last2=Hendrix|first2=Lee|last3=Plazzotta|first3=Carol|date=1997|title=European Drawings 3: Catalogue of the Collections|url=http://d2aohiyo3d3idm.cloudfront.net/publications/virtuallibrary/0892364807.pdf|pages=164|publisher=The J. Paul Getty Museum }}

Bock had five children; Emanuel Bock the Elder, Felix Bock, Hans Bock the Younger, Niklaus Bock and Peter Bock.