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Born 1500 • Nuremberg • Germany
Died November 22, 1550 (aged 50) • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Movement / Style Kleinmeister

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“The Prodigal Son,” engraving by the Kleinmeister Hans Sebald Beham, 1538
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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
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Matthäus Merian
Swiss artist [1593-1650]
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist
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Adam Friedrich Oeser
painter, sculptor, and engraver
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Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
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Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein
German painter
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
Daniel Chodowiecki
German artist
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Master E.S.
German engraver
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Jakob Christof Le Blon
painter and engraver
Master of the Playing Cards: A Poet Reading
Master of the Playing Cards
German artist
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Andrea Mantegna: Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter