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Hans Hoffmann (painter)

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For the 20th-century painter, see Hans Hofmann.
A Hare in the Forest. Oil on panel, circa 1585. J. Paul Getty Museum [1]
Red Squirrel (1528), watercolor on parchment, 32.5 x 25.6 cm. National Gallery of Art

Hans Hoffmann (c. 1530 in Nuremberg – 1591/92 in Prague) was a German painter and draftsman of Mannerism. A leading representative of the Dürer Renaissance, he specialised in watercolor and gouache nature studies, many of them copied from or based on Dürer's work.[2]

Biography

In 1576 he was living in Nuremberg, where he was mentioned in the records of the town-council meetings as the painter Hans Hoffmann, citizen of the town. He quickly became known for his copies after works by Albrecht Dürer.

The Paulus Praun collection – a collection by the Nuremberg citizen and art collector contained more than 100 works by Hans Hoffmann. Because the collection was intact until the beginning of the 19th century, many of these works are documented. In 1584 he went to Munich to work on behalf of William V, Duke of Bavaria. In 1585 he was appointed by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor as a court painter, and who brought him to the imperial court in Prague. Hoffmann is considered the best of the numerous artists who worked in Dürer's style. At the imperial court, Hoffmann advised Rudolph on the development of his art collection, and acquired for him works from the works of Dürer by the friends of his Nuremberg patrician and art dealer and collector Willibald Imhoff.[3]

References

  1. ^ Koreny pp. 132, 144, under no. 47; p. 146, under no. 48; pp. 148-49, no. 49, ill.; p. 150, under no. 50; p. 152, under no. 51; p. 154, under no. 52
  2. ^ "Hans Hoffmann". J Paul Getty Museum.
  3. ^ "Oxford Art Online, Hoffmann, Hans". www.oxfordartonline.com. Retrieved October 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)(subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)

Further reading

  • Bodnár, Szilvia. "Hoffmann, Hans." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 1, 2012; subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
  • Rudolf Bergau (1880), "Hoffmann, Hans", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 12, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 629
  • Koreny, Fritz. Albrecht Dürer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance. Pamela Marwood and Yehuda Shapiro, trans. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988). ISBN 978-0821216248.


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