Bartel Beham on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Barthel Beham (or Bartel)With man
other variants
/ref> (1502–1540) was a German engraver, miniaturist, and
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
Barthel Beham at Artcyclopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beham, Barthel 1502 births 1540 deaths German engravers 16th-century German painters German male painters German Renaissance painters Artists from Nuremberg Sibling artists
Barthel Beham (or Bartel)With manother variants
/ref> (1502–1540) was a German engraver, miniaturist, and
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
.
Biography
The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham, he was born into a family ofartist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
s in Nuremberg. Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
, 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
Georg Pencz (c. 1500 – 11 October 1550) was a German engraver, painter and printmaker.
Pencz was probably born in Westheim near Bad Windsheim/Franconia. He travelled to Nuremberg in 1523 and joined Albrecht Dürer’s atelier. Like Dürer, ...
, 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
See also
*Christ and the Sheep Shed
''Christ and the Sheep Shed'' is a polemical woodcut made in 1524 by the Nuremberg artist Barthel Beham, one of the Little Masters. Created in the early part of the Protestant Reformation, this woodcut illustrates the beliefs of the artist, as wel ...
a polemical woodcut
References
Further reading
*External links
Barthel Beham at Artcyclopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beham, Barthel 1502 births 1540 deaths German engravers 16th-century German painters German male painters German Renaissance painters Artists from Nuremberg Sibling artists