biography
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Holbein, Hans
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known as the Younger
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pronunciation:
[holbiyn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1497–1543)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Augsburg, S Germany, the son of Hans Holbein the Elder (c.1460–1524). He studied under his father, worked in Zürich and Lucerne, and from c.1516 was in Basel, where he settled in 1520. His early religious pictures include the celebrated ‘Dead Christ’ (1521). The ‘Dance of Death’ woodcuts were designed in 1523–6 (published in 1538). He went to France (1524) and then to England (1526), where he finally settled in 1532. Here there was no demand for religious art, and he painted portraits almost exclusively, notably of Sir Thomas More (to whom he had been introduced by Erasmus), Henry VIII (whose service he entered in 1537), and Henry's wives. |
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