Thursday, June 27, 2019

PORTRAIT PAINTING OF THE XVI CENTURY - German artist Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562)



Wife Jorg Zorer 28 years old




Jeweler from Augsburg, Jörg Zorer




Portrait of Christoph Baumgartner




Portrait of Felicitas Welser



Male portrait




Portrait of a lady



Male portrait


Portrait of a 20-year-old Maria Sulzer, merchant wife Jerome




Emperor Charles V



Portrait of Barbara Schwartz



Portrait of Hans Jacob Fugger



Matthäus Schwartz - Chief Accountant of the Augsburg Fugger Trading House during its heyday. Known in the history of fashion as the customer of the handwritten illustrated collection of "book of clothes" - a kind of catalog of suits that he wore between 1520 and 1560 years. In popular science sources, Schwarz’s essay is referred to as the world's first edition of fashion.




Portrait of a man



Sabina of Bavaria - Bavarian princess from the house of Wittelsbach, daughter of Albrecht IV the Wise, Duke of Bavaria. In marriage, the Duchess of Wurttemberg.



Portrait of the cosmographer Sebastian Munster



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Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562) was a painter of Augsburg in the 16th century, a disciple of Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures. 

His father was a stonemason and his grandfather a wood-carver at Amberg. Amberger painted in oils and he also did frescos. His oil paintings are mainly portraits, similar in style to Holbein.

Amberger used to visit Augsburg every year where men of power gathered and opportunities for commissions presented themselves. Among those whose portraits he painted were Jakob Fugger, Konrad Peutinger, Georg von Frundsberg and the Emperor Charles V. He travelled to Northern Italy and Venice between 1525 and 1527. He died in Augsburg. 









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