BURGKMAIR, HANS. — German painter, draughtsman, and woodcut artist, born in Augsburg in 1473, died there in 1531. He received his artistic training under his father, Thoman, a painter of little importance in the Augsburg school; he was SCHONGAUER, MARTIN (v.) and Dürer, and Elder (v.) and the Venetians. In 1498 he became a master in Augsburg. From 1501 to 1509 he worked with Holbein the Elder on the painting of the series of the Roman Basilicas, painting those of St Peter’s, St John Lateran, and Santa Croce (now in the Augsburg museum). After several journeys to Italy, he became one of the principal disseminators of the broad Renaissance form, ornament, and classical architecture in German painting. His portraits, numerous altarpieces, and paintings of religious subject matter are found in the galleries of Augsburg, Munich, Berlin, etc.
His woodcut œuvre is vast (Madonnas, saints, The Seven Virtues, The Seven Sins, a portrait of Pope Julius II, illustrations for books). He was one of the principal wood engravers for the Emperor Maximilian I (Weisshung, 1513–16 ed.; Genealogia, 1510; Trionfo dell’imperatore, 1516–18; Theuerdank, after 1512); together with Dürer and others, he also executed three drawings in the emperor’s famous Gebetbuch. With Jost de Negker, he was one of the earliest masters of colour woodcutting. — Vedi Tav. XVII.