Pilgrims at a Wayside Shrine
Hans Burgkmair I
1508
Medium
woodcut in black on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 18.9 x 14 cm (7 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1992.49.1
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 ...