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HANS SEBALD BEHAM FOLLOWER (Nuremberg 1500 - 1550 Frankfurt am Main)

Bagpipe player with Dancers
oil/copper plate 18,2 x 23 cm

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Hans Sebald Beham was an important painter and engraver of the Renaissance. His first name "Hans" is derived from his monogram (a ligature of H/J and B), but there is no contemporary evidence. Together with his younger brother Barthel Beham and Georg Pencz, he was one of the "three godless painters" who were banished from Nuremberg in 1525 because of their sympathies with the radical wing of the Reformation.
Beham returned to Nuremberg in 1525, worked for Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz from 1530 and settled in Frankfurt around 1532, where he worked as an engraver and woodcut illustrator. His work includes around 270 copper engravings and 300 woodcuts, including the multi-figure "Great Kirchweihfest" (1539). After his exile, his brother Barthel became a court painter in Munich and created portraits for the Wittelsbach family. Both brothers were under the influence of Albrecht Dürer and it is assumed that they trained in his workshop. Further artists and styles: Thomas Müntzer, Georg Pencz, Hans Denck, copperplate engraving, woodcut, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Mainz

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