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Self-Portrait
Heinrich Aldgreverundated
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This self-portrait is based on an earlier copperplate engraving by Aldegrever. This kind of repetition was quite common at the time: prints served as the starting point for further exploration. The lines in this drawing helped the artist to keep close to the original proportions of his model.
Details
- Title: Self-Portrait
- Creator: Heinrich Aldgrever
- Date Created: undated
- Physical Dimensions: 20.7 × 15.7 cm
- Technique and Material: Pen and brown ink
- Provenance: Old inventory
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: KdZ 79
- 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. 111 / Dorothee Wagner
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1502 Paderborn–c. 1555/61 Soest
- Artist Biography: Probably trained in Soest, the painter joined the workshop of Ludger tom Ring the Elder in 1521. Later, impressed by the work of Albrecht Dürer, he turned to copperplate engraving and created a series of outstanding portraits in that medium as well as depictions of biblical and mythological figures. Aldegrever was a committed supporter of the Reformation.
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