Der Weiß Kunig
Medium
Woodcuts
Dimensions
13 7/16 × 9 3/4 × 2 11/16 in. (34.2 × 24.8 × 6.8 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1981
Accession Number
1981.1178.5
Tags
About the Artist
Leonhard Beck|Hans Springinklee|Hans Schäufelein|Joseph Kurzböck|Marx Treitz-Sauerwein von Ehrentreitz|Hans Burgkmair · 1480–1542
Leonhard Beck (c. 1480–1542) was a prominent painter, draftsman, and woodcut designer active in Augsburg, Germany, during the early Renaissance. Born into an artistic family, he was the son of the miniaturist Georg Beck, with whom he collaborated on two psalters for an Augsburg monastery around 1495. Beck began his training as an apprentice in the workshop of the esteemed Augsburg painter Hans Hol...