Biografie von Hans II HOLBEIN (1497-1543)

Personal data


Birth : 1497 - Augsburg, Germany
Death : 11/1543 - London, United Kingdom
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Germany

Family relations

Son of Hans I HOLBEIN [ c.1465-1524 ]
Nephew of

Education

Pupil of / student of Hans I HOLBEIN [ c.1465-1524 ]

Professional data


Work and Life

1532:Was back in England and became court painter to Henry VIII.
1528:Returned to Basel, Switzerland.
1526:Lived in Antwerp, Belgium furnished by Erasmus with a letter of introduction to Pieter GILLIS, the Town Clerk, where he met Quentin METSYS.
1526:Worked in England as a portraitist from Thomas MORE’s circle.
1524:Visited Lyon, Amboise, Fontainebleau and Bourges, France. Presence in Bourges is indicated by his drawings of the tomb sculptures of Duc de Berry and his wife, which were in Ducal Palace. As a result of his France’s trip the influence of Jean CLOUET
1519:He became a master in the Painter’s Guild.
1517 – 1519:Rejoined his father and worked in Lucerne, Switzerland for HERTENSTEIN family.
1515:Lived in Basel, Switzerland and was joined by his brother Ambrosius.

Work


Categorie and medium


Painting : Stained glass - Tempera/panel
Print-Multiple : Woodcut
Drawing-Watercolor : Ink/paper
Miniature :

Subject

portrait
religion

Movements and styles

Renaissance
15-16th century German School
15-16th century Northern School

Works

Modèle d'un pendule destiné au roi
Date of creation : 1543
Medium : Drawing
 
Portrait of a Man wearing a hat with a medallion
Date of creation : 1540
Medium : Chalk/paper
Technical data : Black, red and yellow chalks
Subject : portrait
Size : 204 x 203 cm
 
Edward IV, Prince of Wales as a child
Date of creation : 1538-1539
Medium : Tempera/panel
Technical data : Oak
Subject : portrait
Size : 568 x 440 cm
 
Henry VIII
Date of creation : 1536
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
 
Sir Richard Southwell
Date of creation : 1536
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
Size : 48 x 38 cm
 
Tantalus
Date of creation : 1535-1540
Medium : Ink/paper
Materials : watercolor-ink
Process : drawing
Supports : paper
 
Henry VIII, Queen Jane Seymour and Henry VII, Elizabeth of York
Date of creation : 1535
Medium : Mural painting
Process : painting
Supports : wall
Subject : portrait
 
The Ambassadors (Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve)
Date of creation : 1533
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
Size : 210 x 207 cm
 
Georg Gisze a German Merchant in London
Date of creation : 1532
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
Size : 96 x 86 cm
 
Portrait de Nicolas Kratzer (c.1486-1550)
Date of creation : 1528
Medium : Tempera/panel
Subject : portrait
Size : 83 x 67 cm
 
The Virgin and Child with the family of Burgomaster Meyer
Date of creation : 1528
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : religion
Size : 147 x 102 cm
 
Sir Brian Tuke
Date of creation : 1527-1534
Medium : Oil/panel
Subject : portrait
Size : 491 x 385 cm
 
Family of Sir Thomas More
Date of creation : 1526
Subject : portrait
 
Portrait of Erasmus
Date of creation : 1523
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
Size : 42 x 32 cm
 
Portrait of Jakob Meyer
Date of creation : 1516
Medium : Oil/wood
Subject : portrait
 
La Vierge et l'enfant Jésus
Date of creation : 1514
 
Portrait of Jane Seymour
Medium : Oil/panel
Subject : portrait
 
Rich Man
Medium : Woodcut
 
End of Mankind
Medium : Woodcut
 
The Dance of Death
Medium : Woodcut
Subject : death
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2003

Mauritshuis Museum – The Hague, Netherlands
08/16/2003 – 11/16/2003

Holbein: Portraits of Sir Henry and Lady Guildford
National Gallery – London, United Kingdom
01/31/2003 – 04/27/2003

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Group exhibitions

1997

Conception and Sense
National Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1997

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

1993

German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art
Author: Hand John Oliver
Co-author: Mansfield Sally E.
1993

1967

Holbein and Henry VIII
Author: Strong Roy
1967

1531

Zurich Bible
Publisher: Froschouer Christopher
Author: Luther Martin
1531
Hans II HOLBEIN [ 1497-1543 ]

1529

The Pastime of People, or the chronicles of divers realms, and most especially of the realm of England
Publisher: Pastell J.
1529
Hans II HOLBEIN [ 1497-1543 ]

1515

Encomium Moriae, L’éloge de la folie
Author: Erasmus Desiderius
1515
Hans II HOLBEIN [ 1497-1543 ]


Exhibition catalogues

1960

Die Malerfamilie Holbein in Basel
Publisher: Kunstmuseum Basel – Sankt Alban-Graben 16 – Basel BS, Switzerland
1960


Monographies

1985

The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger
Author: Rowlands John
1985

1939

Les dessins de Hans Holbein le Jeune, Catalogue raisonné
Author: Ganz Paul
1939


Periodicals

2003

LEGRAND François – Traits de caractère
in: Beaux Arts Magazine n° 233 p. 32
Paris, France
10/2003

LAMOTHE Nicole – Hans Holbein portraitriste incomparable
in: Univers des Arts n° 83 p. 28
Paris, France
10/2003

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