Hester, Judith and Jael
Hans Burgkmair I
1516
Medium
woodcut
Dimensions
image: 19 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 21 x 13.8 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1944.8.51
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 ...