Zum Schwan House (or Schongauer House)

The "zum Schwan" (at the swan) house, also known as "huselin zum Swan" (little house at the swan), easily recognizable by its oriel window and carved door lintels, is famous for having housed the workshop of the Colmar artist Martin Schongauer.

Born around 1450 in Colmar into a family of goldsmiths, he likely trained in Flanders before returning to his hometown.

There, he created the "Virgin of the Rose Bush" in 1473, before acquiring this house in 1477 to set up his workshop.

Upon his death in 1491, the house passed to his brother Ludwig, also an engraver, who occupied it until around 1495.

Subsequently, other artists, then bourgeois, merchants, and artisans such as a hatter, a pewter potter, and a pastry chef, successively lived there.