Ambrosius Holbein
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Ambrosius Holbein
(b Augsburg, ?1494; d after 1519). Painter, draughtsman and designer of woodcuts, son of (1) Hans Holbein (i). In the drawing of Ambrosius and Hans Holbein the Younger (1511; Berlin, Kupferstichkab.) by their father, Hans's age is given as 14, and although that of Ambrosius cannot be read clearly, he appears to have been the elder brother. In 1514 he was probably working near the Bodensee, and a Virgin and Child (Basle, Kstmus.), with the coat of arms of Johann von Botzheim, Canon of Konstanz Cathedral (c. 1480-1535), appears to be his work. In 1515 he was working as a journeyman to the painter Thomas Schmid (c. 1480-c. 1550-60) on the decoration of the abbot's Festsaal in the Benedictine St Georgkloster at Stein-am-Rhein, which included allegorical figures of women, one of which, Death with a Female Lute-player (in situ), is signed AH. Also in 1515 he joined his brother Hans in Basle, where together they decorated with marginal drawings (1515-16) the copy of Erasmus's Praise of Folly (Basle, Kstmus.) belonging to the schoolmaster Myconius (Oswald Geissh?sler; d 1552); the distinction between the hands of the two brothers can be made only on stylistic grounds. They also painted a school sign for Myconius, each apparently working on a different side. On 25 July 1516 Ambrosius was recorded staying in the house of the painter Hans Herbst, in whose workshop he may have been employed. On 14 February 1517 he was enrolled in the Basle painters' guild, and on 5 June 1518 he became a citizen of the city. Numerous woodcut designs executed for Basle printers from 1517 onwards and signed with Ambrosius Holbein's initials survive, most of which are set in architectural frameworks inspired by the Italian Renaissance, although there is no evidence that he ever visited Italy. His designs include that for the Basle edition (1518) of Thomas More's Utopia, incorporating a landscape map of the island. References to Ambrosius cease after 1519.
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Ambrosius Holbein
| Ambrosius Holbein | |
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 Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of his sons Ambrosius and Hans |
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| Birth name | Ambrosius Holbein |
| Born | c. 1494 Augsburg, Bavaria |
| Died | c. 1519 (aged 24–25) Basel, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Hans Holbein the Elder |
| Movement | Northern Renaissance |
Ambrosius Holbein (c. 1494 – c. 1519) was a German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking.
Biography
He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger and like his brother was born in Augsburg (which today is in Bavaria, but then was a free imperial city), a center of art, culture and trade at that time. His father Hans Holbein the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style. In his studio both his sons, Ambrosius and Hans, received their first painting lessons as well as the an introduction to the crafts of the goldsmith, jeweller and printmaker.
In 1515 Ambrosius lived in the Swiss town of Stein am Rhein, where he helped a Schaffhausen painter named Thomas Schmid with the murals in the main hall of the St George monastery. The next year saw Ambrosius, as well as his brother Hans, in Basel, where he initially worked as a journeyman in Hans Herbster’s studio. In 1517 he was enrolled in a register of the Basel painters' guild and in 1518 he was naturalized as a citizen there.
The Portrait of a Boy with Blond Hair and its companion, the Portrait of a Boy with Brown Hair, are among Ambrosius’ best works of this period. Both are nowadays in the Basel Kunstmuseum.
Ambrosius Holbein ranks among the most important of Basel’s illustrators and prominent „small formats“ artists.
Works
- Virgin and Child, 1514, Basel, Kunstmuseum
- Portrait of a Boy with Blond Hair, 1516, Basel, Kunstmuseum
- Portrait of a Boy with Brown Hair, 1517, Basel, Kunstmuseum
- Portrait of Jörg Schweiger, 1518, Basel, Kunstmuseum
- Portrait of a Young Man, 1515, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum
- Nativity, 1514, Donaueschingen, Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Gemäldegalerie
- Nativity, Munich, Klerikalseminar Georgianum
- Repose of Mary, Munich, Klerikalseminar Georgianum
- Portrait of Johannes Xylotectus (Zimmermann), 1520, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- Portrait of a Young Man, 1518, St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
- Portrait of a Young Man, 1518, (often accredited to Hans Holbein the Younger), Washington, National Gallery of Art
- Repose of Mary, Vienna, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste
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