Exhibition plan

 

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Saal I

Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Self-Portrait, 1517

Charcoal or black chalk, on paper, 300 x 193 mm. Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. 23008 © bpk | Hamburger Kunsthalle | Christoph Irrgang

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Self-Portrait at his Betrothal, 1497/1498

Pen and greyish black (or black) ink, watercolour, on paper, 157 x 75 mm / 158 x 73 mm. Vienna, Albertina, invs. 31327, 31328 © Albertina, Wien

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Self-Portrait at his Betrothal, 1497/1498

Pen and greyish black (or black) ink, watercolour, on paper, 157 x 75 mm / 158 x 73 mm. Vienna, Albertina, invs. 31327, 31328 © Albertina, Wien

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Laux Lucas Furtenagel, Portrait of Hans Burgkmair the Elder and his wife Anna, née Allerlay, 1529

Limewood panel, 59.7 x 52 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Picture Gallery, inv. 924 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 2 | Artisan & artist

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Unknown sculptor, Neptune, c.1536

Bronze, H 175 cm (with trident 239 cm). Augsburg, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, inv. 2006/3

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Lorenz Helmschmid, Field armour for the later emperor Maximilian I c.1485

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Imperial Armoury, inv. A 62 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Jörg Bräu the Younger and workshop, Entry of the six spokesmen of the crafts into Augsburg City Council in 1368, 1545

Miniature (pen and black ink, watercoloured), approximately 25 x 18.5 cm (image), in Clemens Jäger, Zunftehrenbuch, vellum, 82 leaves, 33.4 x 26.2 cm, modern black velvet binding on boards. Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 2 Cod Aug 199
(Cim 21), fol. 37r

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, Kaiser Karl V. bei Fugger, 1866

Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Alte Nationalgalerie

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Hans Schwarz, Portrait medal of Konrad Peutinger, c.1517/18

Copper alloy (cast), dia. 89.7 mm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Coin Collection, inv. 476bß © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Joachim von Sandrart, Teutsche Academie der Bau-,Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, i, Part 2, Nuremberg (J.-Ph. Miltenberger), 1675

Nuremberg (J.-Ph. Miltenberger), 1675 Vienna, Austrian National Library, shelf mark 271850-D.1,2 FiD-Mag © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Saal II

Hans Holbein the Elder, Basilica San Paolo fuori le mura, c.1504

Augsburg, Staatsgalerie (loan from the BayerischeStaatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich) © bpk | Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
A sketch by Hans Burgkmair the Elder in the exhibition.

Kapitel 2 | Der Handwerker und der Künstler

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder’s signet ring, Before 1529

Gold, rock crystal (carved), transparent and painted on the back in red and black, niello (?), dia. 2.2 cm. Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, inv. R 8735 © Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München

Chapter 2 | Artisan & artist

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Hans Holbein the Elder, Virgin and Child, c.1495 (?) Limewood panel, 63.6 x 49.3 cm

Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, inv. WAF 379 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, inv. Gm 279) © bpk / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Leihgabe der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen München - Alte Pinakothek / Jürgen Musolf

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, St Luke Painting the Virgin, 1507

Woodcut, 222 x 155 mm, Vienna, Albertina, inv. DG 1934/56 © Albertina, Wien

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Gregor Erhart, Christ Child with a Globe, c.1500

Limewood, original polychromy, H 56.8 cm, W 25 cm, D 20.5 cm. Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, inv. 1953.35 © Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, erworben mit Mitteln der Campe'schen Historischen Kunststiftung, photo: Joachim Hiltmann/Stanislaw Rowinski/Andreas Torneberg.

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Holbein the Elder, Christ as Man of Sorrows, c.1500/05

Spruce panel, 115 x 55 cm. Zurich © Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, inv. IN 53

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Holbein d.Ä. (Design), Gregor Erhart (Model), Kaisheim Reliquary of St Sebastian, 1497

Partially gilded silver, cast in several parts, hammered and engraved, set with rock crystal, pearls, sapphires, and rubies 49.5 x 20 x 14.5 cm (entire reliquary), 27 cm (St Sebastian); 2.574 kg. London, V&A, inv. M.27-2001 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Saal VIII

Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Portrait of Jakob Fugger, c.1518

Colour woodcut printed from black and red line blocks, 205 x 140 mm. Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. 11163 © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

Chapter 1 | Boom town Augsburg

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Copy after Albrecht Dürer, The Feast of the Rosary, 1606–1612 (after the 1506 original)

Oil on canvas, 160 x 193 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Picture Gallery, inv. 1900 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Two busts from the choir stalls in the Fugger Chapel in Augsburg (?), 1509/1517

58 x 51.5 x 28 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, invs. 443, 451 © bpk / Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, SMB / Antje Voigt

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Two busts from the choir stalls in the Fugger Chapel in Augsburg (?), 1509/1517

58 x 51.5 x 28 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, invs. 443, 451 © bpk / Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, SMB / Antje Voigt

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Jörg Breu the Elder, Painted shutters of the small organ, c.1512–1522

Wood panels, each 144 x 67 cm. Augsburg, church of St Anne, Fugger Chapel, photo © Eckhart Matthäus

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, c.1519 or later

Limewood, 74 × 62 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Inv.-Nr. 825 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Weiditz the Younger after Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, c.1519 or later

Holzschnitt auf Pergament, 555 × 389 mm. Wien, Albertina, Inv.-Nr. DG1934/485 © Albertina, Wien

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Leonhard Beck, St George and the Dragon, Augsburg, c.1513/14

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. 5669 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Design for an equestrian monument of Emperor Maximilian I, c.1508/09

Pen and brownish-black ink, washed in grey, the background (later?) done in black ink, on paper, the narrower strip for the plinth applied, 431 x 284 mm. Vienna, Albertina, inv. 22447 © Albertina, Wien

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Jakob Fugger, 1518 (?)

Charcoal, 352 x 293 mm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ 8465 © bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB / Jörg P. Anders

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Kabinett I

Kolman Helmschmid etched decoration attributed to Daniel Hopfer, Armour, presumably made for Bernhard Meuting, c.1525

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Imperial Armoury, inv. A 235 © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Chapter 3 | Artistic updates

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Daniel Hopfer, Interior View of the Dominican Church with the Parable of the Mote and the Beam, c. 1530

Iron-plate etching (line-etching and aquatint), 299 x 196 mm (plate). Vienna, Albertina, inv. D/I/28/24 © Albertina, Wien

Chapter 3 | Artistic updates

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Lovers Surprised by Death, 1510

Colour woodcut from a black line block and two brown tone blocks, 213 x 151 mm. Frankfurt/Main, Städel Museum, Graphische Sammlung, inv. 20945 D © Public Domain, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515

Woodcut, 212 × 296 mm (image). Vienna, Albertina, inv. DG1934/509 © Albertina, Wien

Chapter 3 | Artistic updates

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, The Rhinoceros, 1515

Woodcut, 212 × 296 mm. Frankfurt a. Main, Städel Museum, Graphische Sammlung, Inv.-Nr. 31588 D © Public Domain, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, The King of Cochin with Retinue (woodcuts from Balthasar Springer’s Indian expedition of 1505), 1508

227 x 315 mm; 266 x 398 mm; 256 x 358 mm. Vienna, Albertina, inv. DG1934/127, 126 and 129 © Albertina, Wien

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Kabinett II

Hans Schwarz, Portrait medal of Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Coin Collection, inv. MK 12481bβ © KHM-Museumsverband, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Kapitel 3 | Updates für die Kunst

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Crucifixion (canon illustration), 1494

Colour woodcut printed with a black line block and tone blocks in red, blue, yellow, and green, flesh tints and sky hand-coloured, on parchment, 252 x 163 mm (block). Vienna, Albertina, inv. DG 1930/50 © Albertina

Kapitel 3 | Updates für die Kunst

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Hans Daucher, Shield Bearer from the portal of the Ducal Chapel of Meissen Cathedral, 1520/21

Jurassic limestone, partially polychromed and gilded; approximately 49.2 x 16.8 x 14.1 cm, oval plinth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (purchase, Gifts of the Hearst Foundation, Alexander Smith Cochran, Mrs Russell Sage, Mr and Mrs William Randolph Hearst Jr, and Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1999), inv. 1999.29 © bpk | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kapitel 3 | Updates für die Kunst

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Kabinett XIV

Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Portrait of a Young Man, 1506

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. 6944

Chapter 5 | Next generation

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Portrait of Hans Schellenberger, 1505

Limewood panels, 41.5 x 28.8, 41.5 x 28 cm Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, invs. WRM 851 and 850 © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Portrait of Barbara Schellenberger, née Ehem, 1507

Lindenholz, 41,5 × 28,8 cm. Köln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Inv.-Nr. WRM 851 © Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Saal IX

Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of Jörg Saur, c.1512/15

Limewood panel, 33.7 × 24.2 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, on loan from a private collection

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of Jörg Saur, c.1512/15

Silverpoint on white-primed paper, 150 x 105 mm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ 2544 © bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB / Dietmar Katz

Chapter 4 | Emperor, merchants, clergy

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Here attributed to Ambrosius Holbein, Portrait of the Wife of Marx (?) Fischer, 1512

Limewood panel, 35 × 26,6 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel, Inv.-Nr. G 1958.7

Chapter 5 | Next generation

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Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of the Wife of Marx (?) Fischer, c.1512

Silverpoint, with pen and black ink, highlights in white body colour, on greyish-white-primed paper, 126 x 81 mm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ 2558 © bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB / Jörg P. Anders

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Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Portrait of the Wife of Marx (?) Fischer, After 1512

Silverpoint on primed paper, 136 x 102 mm. London, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, inv. 1854,0628.113 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Chapter 5 | Next generation

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Hans Holbein the Younger, Paired portraits of Jacob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife Dorothea Kannengießer, 1516

Limewood panels, each 39.5/39.7 x 31.9 cm. Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, inv. 312 © Gemeinfrei

Chapter 5 | Next generation

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