Hans Holbein the Young person

Hans Holbein the young person is a painter and German engraver , born with Augsburg in 1497 and deceased with London the November 29th 1543.

Biography

Second wire of the painter Hans Holbein Old the (towards 1465 - 1524), he is the younger brother of the painter Ambrosius Holbein (towards 1493/94 - towards 1519), with which he studies in the paternal workshop.

In 1515, its family was fixed at Basle, high place of the Humanisme where it bound with Erasme. Of 1516 with 1526, working for the commercial upper middle classes, it carried out portraits, religious compositions, mural decorations, paperboards of stained glasses and engravings and the museum of art of the town of Basle thus has the most important collection in the world of works of the Holbein family. Dostoïevski, large admiror of Holbein, is extremely shaken when he sees in Basle, three centuries later, its table the body of Christ died in the tomb ; according to him, “this table can make lose the faith. ” The table disturbed it so much that it makes of it to a long description in the Idiot. Influenced by Matthias Grünewald, its style opened with the new designs Italian Renaissance.

In 1526, fleeing the Reform, it left for London, recommended by Erasme to Thomas More. This time constituted the apogee of its career. It carried out the project of a Triumphal arch for the entry of Anne Boleyn with London and painted the Ambassadors in 1533. Table the Ambassadors is particular. Indeed, part of this work is carried out according to the process of the anamorphism (* Anamorphose, image which appears when visual angle is changed) Ainsi, if our glance positions compared to the left section of the table, one sees appearing a human cranium in the middle of the two characters. The presence of this cranium also makes this table a " memorandum mori" , which recalls to humility. Two characters represented being invited to remember that they are mortals like each and everyone.

In 1536, named painter-servant of room of Henri VIII it becomes in little time the official portraitist of the court of England. In 1543, full glory, it died of the Peste. Portraitist seeking behind appearances the meaning expressions of the faces, it seeks to link with the Gothic traditions the new humanistic tendencies .

Works

1521 the body of Christ died in the tomb , Kunstmuseum, Basle
1528 the Virgin and the Child with the family of the Burgomaster Meyer , retable, oil on wood, 146,5 X 102 cm. Darmstadt, Schlossmuseum.

1528 Anne Cresacre, daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas More , black stone and pastel on paper, 37,9 X 26,9 cm. Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

1532 Portrait of Georg Gisze , oil on wood, 96,3 X 85,7 cm. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie.

1533 the Ambassadors , oil on panel, 207 X 209 cm. London, National Gallery

1536 Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell , oil on wood, 47,5 X 38 cm. Florence, Gallery of the Offices.
1538 Portrait of Christine of Denmark . London, National Gallery.
1543 Portrait of Antoine of Lorraine , Berlin, Gemäldegalerie.

Gallery

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