Thoman Burgkmair

Thoman Burgkmair
Thoman Burgkmair
Portrait by Hans Höchstätter, circa 1495
Born	Thoman Burgkmair c. 1444 Augsburg (free imperial city), Holy Roman Empire
Died	1523(1523-00-00) (aged 78–79) Augsburg (free imperial city), Holy Roman Empire
Movement	Late Gothic

Thoman Burgkmair, or Thomas Burgkmair (died 1523) was a German painter.

Life

The father of Hans Burgkmair, and the father-in-law of Hans Holbein the elder, he is mentioned in the records of the Painters' Guild at Augsburg in 1460, and in public documents there in 1479. In 1480 he painted a Christ with St. Ulric and a Virgin with St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, both in the cathedral at Augsburg; the gallery of that city also possesses a picture by him of the Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, and scenes from the Passion. Burgkmair died at Augsburg in 1523.^[1]

Gallery

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  Finding of the cross by Empress Helena
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  Saint Helena and Saint Sebastian
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  Emperor Heraclius carries the cross
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  Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara
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  Jakob Fugger and Sybille Artzt

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Burgkmair, Thoman". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.