Hans Hoffmann (painter)

Hans Hoffmann ( also Hofmann, * 1530 in Nuremberg, † 1591/2 in Prague ) was a German painter and draftsman of Mannerism.

It is thought that Hoffmann had a long learning and working in the Netherlands. 1576 it is detectable in Nuremberg, where he quickly became famous through his copies of works by Albrecht Dürer. The copies are so real that some were held up to the present in works Dürer. In Praunschen Cabinet is 159 Hoffmann drawings of flowers, herbs and animals are said to have been found.

1584 he went to Munich to work on behalf of Duke Wilhelm V. 1585 Emperor Rudolf II appointed him court painter, and brought him to the imperial court in Prague. Hoffmann, who is considered the head of the Dürer Renaissance of the imperial court, Rudolf advised in building his art collection and acquired for him works from the estate of Dürer by the friends of his Nuremberg patrician and collector Willibald Imhoff.

Works

In addition to Dürer copies Hoffmann also created works in which he, for example, Dürer 's hare embedding in a forest landscape, thus laying the foundation of the genus animal piece.

  • Hare ( copy after Dürer called, in 1528, which is this is Dürer's year of death, not the Year of the copy), Berlin
  • Dürer as a child ( copy after Dürer, 1576 ), British Museum, London
  • Squirrel ( 1578), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • Flowers and beetles ( 1582), Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Hare in the Forest ( 1585 ); Purchased in 2001 for $ 2,645,750 from the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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