In the history of art, Hans Burgkmair the Elder is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Hans Burgkmair the Elder as German painter (1473–1531).
Hans Burgkmair the Elder was born at Augsburg in 1473. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter and printmaker.
Among his best-known works are Basilica San Pietro, Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano and Portrait of a man. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hans Burgkmair the Elder died in 1531, aged 58. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basilica San Pietro
- Notable work: Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano
- Notable work: Portrait of a man
