Albrecht Kauw

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Albrecht Kauw, Still Life with a Woman

Albrecht Kauw (I.) (baptized November 26, 1616 in Strasbourg ; † 1681/1682) was an Alsatian painter .

Life

Albrecht Kauw was the son of the wealthy wine merchant Conrad Koha and Anna-Maria Volmar. Kauw may have spent his childhood and youth in Strasbourg. Possibly he trained in the environment of the painters Georg Brentel and Sebastian Stoskopff . He worked in Bern from 1639 at the latest . Two signed and dated portraits are known from this year. Here he married Katharina Meyer von Zofingen . In 1649 Kauw copied Niklaus Manuel's dance of death in the cloister of the Dominican monastery , which was shortly afterwards destroyed along with the dance of death, and gave these gouache copies to the Bernese council.

Dance of Death copy (excerpt)

literature

  • Georges Herzog: Albrecht Kauw (1616–1681). The Bernese painter from Strasbourg. Bern 1999.
  • Peter Lüps and Georges Herzog: The bird world on the still lifes of Albrecht Kauw (1616–1681). A source for faunistics? In: Der Ornithologische Beobachter , Sempach, vol. 101 (2002), pp. 161–186. ( Digitized version)
  • Friedrich v. Zglinicki : Uroscopy in the fine arts. An art and medical historical study of the urine examination. Ernst Giebeler, Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-921956-24-2 , p. 80 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Kauw, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koha, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized November 26, 1616
DATE OF DEATH 1681