The Coat of Arms of Wigeleus von Fröschel, Bishop of Passau
Hans Burgkmair I
1503
Medium
hand-colored woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
block: 18.2 x 13 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 18.7 x 13.2 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2008.8.1
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 ...