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Ambrosius Holbein
Ambrosius Holbein | ||
Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of his sons Ambrosius and Hans (1511) | ||
Background information | ||
Field: | Painting | |
Movement: | Northern Renaissance | |
Birthdate: | c.
1494 | |
Born as: | Ambrosius Holbein | |
Location: | Free Imperial City of Augsburg | |
Date of death: | c. 1519 {age 24-25) | |
Death place: | Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy | |
Nationality: | German |
Ambrosius Holbein (c.
✦1494 – c. †1519) was a German and later a Swiss artist in painting, drawing, and printmaking.
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He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger, but he appears to have died in his mid-twenties, leaving behind only a small body of work.
Biography
Like his younger brother, he was born in Augsburg (which today is in Bavaria, but then was a free imperial city), a center of art, culture, and trade at that time.
His father Hans Holbein the Elder ↗ was a pioneer and leader in the transfor