Hans Maler zu Schwaz (1480/1488–1526/1529) was a German painter born in

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

and active as portraitist in the village of

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, near

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. Maler may have trained with the German artist Bartholomäus Zeitblom, who was chief master of the School of Ulm between 1484 and 1517. He painted numerous portraits of members of the

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court at Innsbruck as well as of wealthy merchants such as the

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. Maler's two most important patrons were Ferdinand I of Austria, who at the time was

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(Later

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) and the celebrated Fuggers. Ferdinand is known to have commissioned at least three portraits of himself and four of his wife, Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Maler also painted portraits in 1517 of Sebastian Andorfer, a successful metal maker and merchant from Schwaz. His portrait style rarely varied from his bust-format, where the subject's hands were not shown and without eye contact to the viewer. He received commissions early on in his career from Ferdinand's grandfather, Maximilian I and was also commissioned in 1508 for frescoes depicting the

family tree in

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Selected works

*1510 - ''Portrait of Mary of Burgundy'' (

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) *1515 - ''Christ Bearing the Cross'' (

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) *1517 - ''Portrait of Sebastian Andorfer'' (

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) *1519 - ''Portrait of Anne of Hungary and Bohemia'' (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,

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) *1520 - ''Portrait of Queen Anne of Hungary'' (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,

) *1521 - ''Portrait of A Beardless Man'' (

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), was depicted on the obverse of 1965-1995 series of 500 German mark banknote *1523 - ''Portrait of A Young Man'' (Private Collection) *1524 - ''Portrait of Ferdinand of Castille'' (

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) *1524 - '' Portrait of Anton Fugger'' (Decín Castle,

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) *1525 - ''Portrait du banquier Anton Fugger'' (

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) *1525 - ''Portrait of Anton Fugger'' (Allentown Art Museum,

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) *1525 - ''Portrait of Ulrich Fugger'' (

) *1526 - '' Portrait of Matthäus Schwarz'' (

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References

External links

''Grove Dictionary of Art'' Biography Entry on Maler at www.artnet.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwaz, Hans Maler zu 1480 births 1520s deaths 16th-century German painters German male painters German portrait painters People from Ulm