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Head-and-Shoulders Portrait of Count Moritz von Ertingen
Leonhard Beck1521
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
Beck, a major figure of portrait painting in Augsburg from the 1520s onward, was exploring the limits of the medium of drawing in this sheet: by means of color, he approached the impression of painted portraits in a drawing. His curving, slightly downcast upper lids give the sitter a contemplative gaze typical of portraiture of the period.
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- Title: Head-and-Shoulders Portrait of Count Moritz von Ertingen
- Creator: Leonhard Beck
- Date Created: 1521
- Physical Dimensions: 34.5 × 27.5 cm
- Technique and Material: Black, red, and yellow chalks, wash
- Provenance: Acquired in 1879
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: KdZ 523
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Jörg P. Anders; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; Text © cat. no. 106 / Dorothee Wagner
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1475–80–1542 Augsburg
- Artist Biography: At the beginning of his career, the painter and draftsman was probably active in the workshop of Hans Holbein the Elder (assisting on the Dominican altarpiece in Frankfurt am Main in 1501). In 1503 he is documented as a master in Augsburg. Beck was involved in several of the most important woodcut projects of his day, such as the books Weisskunig and Theuerdank and the Triumphzug (Triumphal procession) for Emperor Maximilian I.
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