The Ascension of Christ
Hans Georg Asam
late 17th–early 18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (18.4 x 33.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003
Accession Number
2003.512
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Human FiguresAngelsChrist
About the Artist
Hans Georg Asam · 1649–1711
**Hans Georg Asam (1649–1711)** was a prominent German Baroque church painter active primarily in Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. Born on October 12, 1649, in Rott am Inn as the son of the monastery brewery cook, he trained under his father-in-law, the painter Nikolaus Prugger, whose guidance shaped him into one of the leading ecclesiastical artists of his region. He began as an oil painter but ...