Portrait of Bernt Knipperdolling, a leader of the Münster Anabaptists
Medium
Engraving, New Hollstein third state of five
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 1/8 in. (31.7 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.953
Tags
HandsMenPortraits
About the Artist
Heinrich Aldegrever|Jan Muller|Clement de Jonghe · 1502–1561
Heinrich Aldegrever, born in 1502 in Paderborn, Westphalia, to parents Herman and Katherine Trippenmeker—a family of clog-makers known by the dialect name Trippenmecker—emerged as a multifaceted artist in the German Renaissance. His early training remains undocumented, though he likely apprenticed in a Soest goldsmith's workshop after relocating there around 1525, where he joined the painters' gui...