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AMBERGER, Christoph
German Painter, ca.1500-1562
German painter and draughtsman. His family came from the Upper Palatinate. He served his apprenticeship in Augsburg, probably with Leonhard Beck, whose daughter Barbara he married. He became a master on 15 May 1530 but rarely signed his work. He was in northern Italy and Venice c. 1525-7. His full-length pendant portraits of a husband and wife (both 1525; Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.) show Venetian influence, and the portrait of Anton Welser (1527; priv. col., see 1980 exh. cat., p. 98) is in the Italian style. According to Sandrart, during the Imperial Diet of 1530 in Augsburg Amberger painted a portrait of Emperor Charles V to the Emperor's satisfaction, but the surviving work (Berlin, Gem?ldegal.) dates from 1532, based on the age given. In the decades that followed, Amberger was the favourite portrait painter of ambitious merchant families, such as the Fugger, who belonged to guilds but were connected with the nobility by family or marriage ties.
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Painting ID:: 4732
Christoph Fugger
1541
Wood, 97 x 80 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Painting ID:: 4733
Goldsmith Jorg Zrer of Augsburg
1531
Oil on panel, 78 x 51 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 4734
Portrait of Felicitas Seiler
1537
Wood, 90 x 80 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Painting ID:: 4735
Young Man in Fur
Oil on wood, 50,5 x 42,5 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 28831
Portrait of Cornelius Gros
mk65
Oil on panel
21x16 15/16in
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AMBERGER, Christoph
German Painter, ca.1500-1562
German painter and draughtsman. His family came from the Upper Palatinate. He served his apprenticeship in Augsburg, probably with Leonhard Beck, whose daughter Barbara he married. He became a master on 15 May 1530 but rarely signed his work. He was in northern Italy and Venice c. 1525-7. His full-length pendant portraits of a husband and wife (both 1525; Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.) show Venetian influence, and the portrait of Anton Welser (1527; priv. col., see 1980 exh. cat., p. 98) is in the Italian style. According to Sandrart, during the Imperial Diet of 1530 in Augsburg Amberger painted a portrait of Emperor Charles V to the Emperor's satisfaction, but the surviving work (Berlin, Gem?ldegal.) dates from 1532, based on the age given. In the decades that followed, Amberger was the favourite portrait painter of ambitious merchant families, such as the Fugger, who belonged to guilds but were connected with the nobility by family or marriage ties.
. Related Artists to AMBERGER, Christoph: | Adriaen de Gryef | Charles Philips | Nathaniel Currier | Thomas Trotter | Luca Signorelli |
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