Hans Burgkmair
Hans Burgkmair | |
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Born | 1473 Augsburg, Germany |
Died | 1531 (aged 57–58) Augsburg, Germany |
Nationality | German |
Known for | Painting, printmaking, woodcut |
Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473–1531) was a German
Background
Hans Burgkmair was born in
Career
German art historian Friedrich Wilhelm Hollstein ascribes 834 woodcuts to Burgkmair, the majority of which were intended for book illustrations. Slightly more than a hundred are "single-leaf" prints which were not intended for books. His work shows a talent for striking compositions which blend Italian Renaissance forms with the established German style.
From about 1508, Burgkmair spent much of his time working on the woodcut projects of Maximilian I until the Emperor's death in 1519.[1] He was responsible for nearly half of the 135 prints in the Triumphs of Maximilian, which are large and full of character. He also did most of the illustrations for Weisskunig and much of Theuerdank. He worked closely with the leading blockcutter Jost de Negker, who became in effect his publisher.[3]
He was an important innovator of the
Burgkmair was also a successful painter, mainly of religious scenes, portraits of Augsburg citizens, and members of the Emperor's court. Many examples of his work are in the galleries of Munich, Vienna and elsewhere.[8]
Burgkmair died at Augsburg in 1531.
Burgkmair and the foundation of modern ethnology
Burgkmair's time was a period of development for ethnography and the new Humanist science of chorography (promoted by Conrad Celtes at the University of Vienna).[9][10] Using commercial ventures of the Welsers in Augsburg as a pretext, the humanist Konrad Peutinger goaded Emperor Maximilian into backing his ethnographical interests in the Indians and supporting the 1505–1506 voyage of Balthasar Springer around Africa to India.[11][12] Based on an instruction dictated by Maximilian in 1512 regarding Indians in the Triumphal Procession, Jörg Kölderer executed a series of (now lost) drawings, which served as the guideline for Altdorfer's miniatures in 1513–1515, which in turn became the model for woodcuts (half of them based on now lost 1516–1518 drawings by Burgkmair) showing "the people of Calicut."[13] In 1508, Burgkmair produced the People of Africa and India series, focusing on depicting the peoples whom Springer encountered along coastal Africa and India.[11] The series brought into being "a basic set of analytic categories that ethnography would take as its methodological foundation".[14]
Gallery
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Print in the Triumphs of Maximilian
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Altarpiece of John the Evangelist, 1518 (Alte Pinakothek)
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Gietmann 1908.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-8325-8. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ Landau & Parshall, 212
- ^ "Emperor Maximilian on Horseback". Artbma.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-06.
- ^ "Lovers Surprised by Death".
- ISBN 0-300-06883-2
- ^ "Hans (the Younger) Burgkmair". Artnet.de.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-7470-5. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-521-57244-6. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ a b Noflatscher 2011, p. 236.
- S2CID 194043304. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- S2CID 84828234.
- ^ Leitch 2009, p. 135.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 817.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gietmann, Gerhard (1908). "Hans Burckmair". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Noflatscher, Heinz (2011). Maximilian I. (1459 - 1519): Wahrnehmung - Übersetzungen - Gender (in German). StudienVerlag. p. 245. ISBN 978-3-7065-4951-6.
External links
- Media related to Hans Burgkmair d. Ä. at Wikimedia Commons
- Burgkmair's Flodden woodcut
- Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Burgkmair (see index)
- Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.