Hans Sachs was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker.
Hans Sachs, wood engraving by Michael Ostendorfer
Hans Sachs memorial Nuremberg by Johann Konrad Krausser
Sämtliche Fabeln und Schwänke. 1 (1893)
A Meistersinger was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the most part.
Hans Sachs, leader of a famous 16th-century Meistersinger school in Nuremberg
1912 illustration of a Meistersinger having errors in their performance chalked up