Barthel Beham (or Bartel)
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.
Biography
The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham
Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, mainly known for his very small engravings. Born in Nuremberg, he spent the later part of his career in Frankfurt. He was one of the most important of the "Little Masters", the group ...
, he was born into a family of artist
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s in Nuremberg
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. Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer
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, 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
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". He was also fascinated with antiquity and may have worked with Marcantonio Raimondi
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in Bologna
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and Rome
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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 Engraving, engraver, Painting, painter and Printmaking, printmaker.
Pencz was probably born in Westheim near Bad Windsheim/Franconia. He travelled to Nuremberg in 1523 and joined Albrecht ...
, the so-called "godless painters", he was banished from Lutheran
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Nuremberg for asserting his disbelief in baptism
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, Christ
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, or transubstantiation
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. Although later pardoned, he moved to Catholic
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Munich
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to work for the Bavaria
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n dukes William IV
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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 Charles V may refer to:
Kings and Emperors
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
Others
* Charles V, Duke ...
.
According to Joachim von Sandrart
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, he died in Italy
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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
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'', engraving, 1525
File:1540 Beham Vanitas anagoria.JPG, ''Vanity'', 1540, Hamburger Kunsthalle
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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
See also
* Christ and the Sheep Shed a polemical woodcut
References
Further reading
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External links
Barthel Beham at Artcyclopedia
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1502 births
1540 deaths
16th-century German engravers
16th-century German painters
German male painters
German Renaissance painters
Artists from Nuremberg
Sibling artists