From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Barthel Beham

German engraver and miniaturist (1502–1540))

Barthel Beham (or Bartel) (1502–1540) was a German engraver, miniaturist, and painter.

Biography

The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham, he was born into a family of artists in Nuremberg. Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer, he was particularly active as an engraver during the 1520s, creating tiny works of magnificent detail, positioning him in the German printmaking school known as the "Little Masters". He was also fascinated with antiquity and may have worked with Marcantonio Raimondi in Bologna and Rome at some time in his career.

In 1525, along with his brother and Georg Pencz, the so-called "godless painters", he was banished from Lutheran Nuremberg for asserting his disbelief in baptism, Christ, or transubstantiation. Although later pardoned, he moved to Catholic Munich to work for the Bavarian dukes William IV and Ludwig X. Whilst there, his exceptional talent established him as one of Germany's principal portrait painters, favoured by distinguished patrons such as Emperor Charles V.

According to Joachim von Sandrart, he died in Italy during a trip under the patronage of Duke William.

Gallery

File:Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air MET DP828644.jpg|Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air, engraving, 1520, 5.7 × 3.6 cm, perhaps a parody of Dürer's Nemesis. File:Beham Judith.jpg|Judith, engraving, 1525 File:1540 Beham Vanitas anagoria.JPG|Vanity, 1540, Hamburger Kunsthalle File:Dead Child with Four Skulls MET MM38383.jpg|Engraving: Dead Child with Four Skulls File:Beham Jörg Herz.jpg|Portrait of the goldsmith Jörg Herz, c. 1525 File:Emperor Ferdinand I MET DP828657.jpg|Engraving: The Emperor Ferdinand, 1531

References

With many [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Beham&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500010818 other variants]

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1502-births 1540-deaths 16th-century-german-engravers 16th-century-german-painters german-male-painters german-renaissance-painters artists-from-nuremberg sibling-artists

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Barthel Beham — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report