1. Hans Burgkmair the Elder was a German painter and woodcut printmaker.
12 Facts About Hans Burgkmair
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Hans Burgkmair was born in Augsburg, the son of painter Thomas Burgkmair.
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From 1488, Burgkmair was a pupil of Martin Schongauer in Colmar.
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Schongauer died in 1491, before Hans Burgkmair was able to complete the normal period of training.
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From about 1508, Hans Burgkmair spent much of his time working on the woodcut projects of Maximilian I until the Emperor's death in 1519.
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Hans Burgkmair was responsible for nearly half of the 135 prints in the Triumphs of Maximilian, which are large and full of character.
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Hans Burgkmair did most of the illustrations for Weisskunig and much of Theuerdank.
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Hans Burgkmair worked closely with the leading blockcutter Jost de Negker, who became in effect his publisher.
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Hans Burgkmair was an important innovator of the chiaroscuro woodcut, and seems to have been the first to use a tone block, in a print of 1508.
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Hans Burgkmair produced one etching, Venus and Mercury, etched on a steel plate, but never tried engraving, despite his training with Schongauer.
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Hans Burgkmair was a successful painter, mainly of religious scenes, portraits of Augsburg citizens, and members of the Emperor's court.
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Hans Burgkmair's time was a period of development for ethnography and the new Humanist science of chorography.