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Portrait of a Bearded Man
Hans Leonhard Schäufeleinc. 1520
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This drawing oscillates between model study and ricordo. Schäufelein produced tonal light values by means of carefully stumped planes of chalk, accentuated with a few powerful strokes. He emphasized the areas around the eyes and nostrils, the mouth and the temples. The dynamics and immediacy of the portrait are further enhanced by arranging the monogram (a shovel) and the year parallel to the body.
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- Title: Portrait of a Bearded Man
- Creator: Hans Schäufelein
- Date Created: c. 1520
- Physical Dimensions: 28.5 × 21.6 cm
- Technique and Material: Black chalk
- Provenance: Merian the Younger Collection; Frederick William of Brandenburg, the Great Elector; King Frederick William I of Prussia
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: KdZ 1295
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Dietmar Katz; 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; cat. no. 84 / Michael Roth
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: c. 1480–85–1539–40 Nördlingen
- Artist Biography: Schäufelein, who was active in Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from 1503 and in Hans Holbein the Elder’s in Augsburg from 1509, was involved in the design of several woodcut illustrations for the important book projects Theuerdanck and Weisskunig for Emperor Maximilian I. The oeuvre of the artist, who was appointed municipal painter of Nördlingen in 1515, includes more than fifty altarpieces, more than a thousand woodcuts, and numerous drawings.
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