Saint Amelberga
Leonhard Beck
1516/1518
Medium
woodcut
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.302
About the Artist
Leonhard Beck · 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...