Paul Lautensack (1478 – 15 August 1558) was a German painter and

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. Lautensack was born in Bamberg, but in 1525, on account of his having embraced the

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, he left that city and settled in

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. Kress Berthold. 2014. ''Divine Diagrams the Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack'' (1477/78-1558). Leiden: Brill. There he painted many subjects from the Apocalypse, and also wrote some treatises upon it, which were collected and published in

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in 1619. However, his fanaticism became such a public nuisance that he was in 1542 expelled from the city. After a time he was allowed to return, and is believed to have died there in 1558. Some of his paintings still exist in Bamberg, chiefly copies of the prints of

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and the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer. His portrait, dated 1529, is in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg. The first major study of Lautensack by Berthold Kress was published in 2014, ''Divine Diagrams the Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack.'' Lautensack was the father of Hans Sebald Lautensack, a painter and printmaker, and the goldsmith and printer Heinrich Lautensack.

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* 1478 births 1558 deaths People from Bamberg 15th-century German painters German male painters 16th-century German painters German organists German male organists {{Germany-painter-stub