Franz Hoppenstätt

Franz Hoppenstätt (died 1657 or 1658) was a German-Estonian wood carver.

Life and works
Franz Hoppenstätt probably came originally from Bremen. His work is evident in Estonia from the 1640s. From 1653 he was a citizen of Tallinn. There he worked as a wood carver. His Early Baroque works that were decorated with splendid acanthus ornamentation have become famous.

Particularly well known works include:
 * The coloured pulpit of the church of Järva-Jaani made by Hoppenstätt with its magnificent carvings (1648)
 * The decorated wall of the funerary chapel of Bogislaus von Rosen in St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (1655)
 * The door of the house, Pikk tänav 71, in the old town of Tallinn.

None of the works bear Hoppenstätt's signature, so their attribution to him remains in doubt; but all three works are by the same artist.

Hoppenstätt died in the late 1650s, probably of the plague.