The Annunciation
| Reference: | s30535 |
| Author | Hans Leonard Schäufelein |
| Year: | 1520 ca. |
| Measures: | 60 x 83 mm |
| Reference: | s30535 |
| Author | Hans Leonard Schäufelein |
| Year: | 1520 ca. |
| Measures: | 60 x 83 mm |
Description
Woodcut, circa 1520, without printind details.
Avery good impression, on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the borderline, in very good conditions.
Unknown collector's mark on verso.
Literature
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Bartsch, VII.122
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Hans Leonard Schäufelein (Norimberga, 1480 - ivi, 1540)
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Painter, designer of woodcuts and stained glass. Nuremberg, Nördlingen and Augsburg have each been proposed as his place of birth, and it has also been suggested that he could have studied in Nördlingen with Friedrich Herlin, leaving for Nuremberg after Herlin died in 1500 (Weih-Kruger, 1986). Schäufelein’s robust figures and the hearty tone of his work suggest that his origins were in Swabia. Yet a close connection with the merchant family Scheufelin, who settled first in Nördlingen and then in Nuremberg and Geneva, has been refuted. Schäufelein was active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from c. 1503 to 1507 and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg in 1507–8. He journeyed to southern Tyrol between 1508 and 1510 and was back in Augsburg from 1511 to at least 1514. From 1515 until his death he was the municipal painter of Nördlingen. The middle name Leonhard, often used in the literature, does not appear in the early documents, nor is its use supported by Schäufelein’s monogram, the ligated letters H and S with a small shovel (Ger. kleine Schaufel=Schäufelein). Schäufelein paid taxes in Nördlingen for the last time in 1539; the following year they were paid by his widow.
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Literature
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Bartsch, VII.122
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Hans Leonard Schäufelein (Norimberga, 1480 - ivi, 1540)
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Painter, designer of woodcuts and stained glass. Nuremberg, Nördlingen and Augsburg have each been proposed as his place of birth, and it has also been suggested that he could have studied in Nördlingen with Friedrich Herlin, leaving for Nuremberg after Herlin died in 1500 (Weih-Kruger, 1986). Schäufelein’s robust figures and the hearty tone of his work suggest that his origins were in Swabia. Yet a close connection with the merchant family Scheufelin, who settled first in Nördlingen and then in Nuremberg and Geneva, has been refuted. Schäufelein was active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from c. 1503 to 1507 and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg in 1507–8. He journeyed to southern Tyrol between 1508 and 1510 and was back in Augsburg from 1511 to at least 1514. From 1515 until his death he was the municipal painter of Nördlingen. The middle name Leonhard, often used in the literature, does not appear in the early documents, nor is its use supported by Schäufelein’s monogram, the ligated letters H and S with a small shovel (Ger. kleine Schaufel=Schäufelein). Schäufelein paid taxes in Nördlingen for the last time in 1539; the following year they were paid by his widow.
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