Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the age of the Fuggers

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"The works of great painters centered in Ausburg during the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Dürer as the forerunners of Renaissance painting in Germany. The prosperous Imperial and trading city of Augsburg was an important center during this artistic golden age. Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers presents comprehensive insight into great work produced in this region. Augsburg was influenced by the humanist culture of Italy from an early stage. Thanks to the art-loving trading houses with international operations like the Fuggers, as well as the long sojourns of Emperor Maximilian I and the frequent Imperial diets, the city offered artists like Holbein the Elder and Burgkmair an ideal setting for the development of a new form of art. Together with the works of Dürer, Holbein the Younger, and others, many of their most important works bear witness to the highly fertile and yet contrasting ways in which the two artists adopted the Italian Renaissance."-- Provided by publisher.

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Sponsors' foreword / Helmut Schleweis -- Foreword / Philipp Demandt, Sabine Haag -- Essays. '...to Augsburg, one of the most important cities in Germany...' / Wolfgang Augustyn -- 'The devil always shits on the biggest dung heap.' Augsburg as an Early Modern artistic centre / Andreas Tacke -- Holbein and Burgkmair: a tale of two Augsburg artists / Guido Messling -- When three minds meet: Hans Holbein the Elder and Michel and Gregor Erhart / Manuel Teget-Welz -- Burgkmair and Italy / Ulrich Soding -- Albrecht Durer and Jakob Fugger: providing impulses for art in Augsburg / Friederike Schutt -- 'Family business': conjectures on the Holbein family of painters in 1512 / Bodo Brinkmann -- Hans Holbein the Younger: formative experiences as an artist in Augsburg and his first decade in Basel / Jochen Sander -- Printmaking in Augsburg / Armin Kunz -- The traces of Hans Holbein the Elder in Augsburg: a search among the sources / Heidrun Lange-Krach -- Catalogue. Augsburg around 1500: new subjects, new techniques, new opportunities -- Holbein and Burgkmair -- The Fuggers, the Fugger Chapel, and Durer -- All kinds of change: patrons in Augsburg -- From Augsburg to Basel: Holbein's sons.