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- Hans Brosamer
- Also known as
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Hans Brosamer
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primary name: Brosamer, Hans
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other name: Brosshamer, Hans
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other name: Brösamer, Hans
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; German; Male
- Life dates
- c. 1495-c. 1554
- Biography
- Little known of Brosamer other than what is recorded on his prints. Worked from 1536 to 1545 in Fulda, where he designed prints for a 'Kunstbüchlein' of goldsmiths' work (1540). He later moved to Erfurt. Over 600 woodcuts by him are recorded, chiefly designs for book illustrations which were published in Ingolstadt, Wittenberg, Magdeburg and Frankfurt. A few impressions of a monumental woodcut of 'David and Bathsbeba', printed on nine sheets in 1554 (C.Dodgson, II, p. 394, 27), have also survived; this is his last dated work. His engraved oeuvre is much smaller (thirty-seven engravings are listed in Hollstein). A number of painted portraits have also been attributed to him, and there is a group of his drawings in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.
- Bibliography
- Thieme-Becker, v, 1911, p. 66f; I. Künhel-Kunze, Zeitschr.f. Kunstwiss., viii, 1941, pp. 209-38; ditto, Neue Deutsche Biographie ii, Berlin, 1955, pp. 637f; Martin Knauer in New Hollstein German, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2015, vol.i, pp xxi-xxxii