Hans Reichle

German sculptor, architect, and engineer Hans Reichle (Schongau, Germany c. 1575 – Brixen, Italy 1642) was one of the most influential sculptors active in south Germany and the Tyrol in the last decade of the 16th century and the first decade of the 17th, introducing the Mannerist style of Giambologna learned during his years as one of that master’s principal assistants in Florence. Although attempts have been made to ascribe to him sculptures in wood and small-scale bronzes, his securely attributable works are mainly large-scale figures in bronze or terracotta. Chief among them is his monumental bronze group of the Archangel Michael Vanquishing Lucifer on the façade of the Zeughaus (arsenal) in Augsburg. In his later years, he was more active as an architect and engineer than as a sculptor.