The Fight in the Forest
Hans Burgkmair I
c. 1500/1503
Medium
pen and black ink on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 21 x 28.6 cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.) support: 26.7 x 35.7 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1978.77.1
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 ...