Jörg Breu the Younger (c. 1510 – 1547) was a painter of

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ...

. He was the son of

Jörg Breu the Elder Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of Augsburg, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver. He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the Melk Abbey altar ...

, and collaborated with his father on some works. In the 1540s, he was involved with the creation of the

Fechtbuch Martial arts manuals are instructions, with or without illustrations, specifically designed to be learnt from a book. Many books detailing specific techniques of martial arts are often erroneously called manuals but were written as treatises. Pros ...

er commissioned by

Paulus Hector Mair Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579) was a German civil servant fencing master from Augsburg. He collected Fechtbücher and undertook to compile all knowledge of the art of fencing in a compendium surpassing all earlier books. For this, he engaged the ...

. He did also

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s ''Lebenstreppen'', together with

Cornelis Anthonisz Cornelis Anthonisz., Anthonisz. (Anthony's son) also spelled Anthonissen or Teunissen (ca. 1505 – 1553), was a Dutch painter, engraver, and mapmaker. Biography Anthonisz. was born in Amsterdam around 1505. He was a grandchild of Jacob ...

Work

A selection: * ''Madonna with child'' * ''Conquest of

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by Queen Artemisia'', 1535.

Bavarian State Painting Collections The Bavarian State Painting Collections (german: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), based in Munich, Germany, oversees artwork held by the Free State of Bavaria. It was established in 1799 as ''Centralgemäldegaleriedirektion''. Artwork includes ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

* ''Der reiche Prasser und der arme Lazarus'', 1535 * ''Festival in

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'', 1539 * ''History of Suzanne'', 1540 * ''Kaiserl. Schlittenfahrt'', vers 1540 * ''Siege of Algiers'', 1541 * ''Sacrifice of Isaac'', 1545

References

16th-century German painters German male painters Artists from Augsburg 1510 births 1547 deaths {{Germany-painter-stub