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Henne [Hennen, Henner], Jost [Joest]
(b Westphalia; fl 1629–44; d 1644). German sculptor and master builder active in Sweden. He is known to have decorated the memorial chapel (1632–3) of Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden (reg 1611–32), in Riddarholm Church, Stockholm, and to have executed the south portal (1643) of the German Church in that city. Between 1637 and 1644 he worked on the black marble and white alabaster monument to Magnus Brahe (1564–1633) in Västerås Cathedral and between 1642 and 1644 on the portal of Queen Christina’s summerhouse in Stockholm (since the 1680s the house of the Landtmäteristyrelsen (office of land surveyors)).
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