See also:BURGKMAIR, HANS or See also:JOHN (1473—? 1531), See also:German painter and engraver on See also:wood, believed to have been a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Albrecht Darer, was See also:born at See also:Augsburg. See also:Professor See also:Christ ascribes to him about 700 woodcuts, most of them distinguished by that spirit and freedom ' which we admire in the See also:works of his supposed See also:master. His See also:principal See also:work is the See also:series of 135 prints representing the triumphs of the See also:emperor See also:Maximilian I. They are of large See also:size, executed in See also:chiaroscuro, from two blocks, and convey a high See also:idea of his See also:powers. Burgkmair was also an excellent painter in See also:fresco and in distemper, specimens of which are in the galleries of See also:Munich and See also:Vienna, carefully and solidly finishedin the See also:style of the old German school.
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