Zelfportret van Heinrich Aldegrever
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
126; 197
About this artwork
Zelfportret van Heinrich Aldegrever op vijfendertigjarige leeftijd, met baard. Buste, driekwart naar links gekeerd. Onderaan, op een balustrade, een vierregelige tekst in het Latijn.
About the Artist
Heinrich Aldegrever · 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...