Emperor Maximilian I
Hans Burgkmair I
1508/1518
Medium
chiaroscuro woodcut in green printed from two blocks
Dimensions
image (trimmed to image): 32.5 × 22.7 cm (12 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1948.11.14
About the Artist
Hans Burgkmair I
Hans Burgkmair I (1473–1531) was one of the most accomplished and versatile German artists of the Renaissance, a master of painting, woodcut design, and manuscript illumination who worked primarily in Augsburg and played a central role in bringing Italian Renaissance ideas north of the Alps. The son of the painter Thomas Burgkmair, he received his earliest training in his father's workshop before ...