Christoph Amberger
Christoph Amberger (* around 1505 ; † between November 1, 1561 and October 19, 1562 in Augsburg ) was a German painter . He was primarily a portrait painter and is considered an outstanding painter of the generation after Dürer and Burgkmair .
life and work
Amberger was accepted into the Augsburg painters' guild in 1530, where he mainly worked as a portrait painter until his death. It is certain that he learned to paint from Leonhard Beck in Augsburg. From 1530 Amberger had the so-called master justice, which was still rooted in the medieval legal system and was necessary in order to become a resident of Augsburg as an artist with all civil rights. In 1548 he met Titian .
A number of portraits of famous and respected contemporaries have come down to us from Amberger. He painted portraits of numerous Augsburg patricians and their wives as well as portraits of Charles V (around 1532, this work established his reputation), Georg von Frundsbergs , Konrad Peutingers (1543), the Fugger and Welser and the cosmographer Sebastian Münster . About 30 drawings are also known. Amberger only occasionally made designs for woodcuts .
His most important work is probably the high altar panel in Augsburg Cathedral , which was created in 1554 after the altar by Hans Holbein the Elder was destroyed in the iconoclasm .
His bust - made by the Munich sculptor Maximilian von Widnmann - was displayed in the Hall of Fame in Munich.
literature
- Wilhelm Schmidt: Amberger, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 390.
- Ernst Haasler: The painter Christoff Amberger from Augsburg . Dissertation University of Heidelberg. Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, Königsberg 1894 ( digitized version ).
- Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf: Amberger, Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 241 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Neithard Bulst, Thomas Lüttenberg, Andreas Priever: Image or ideal? Portraits of Christoph Amberger in the field of tension between legal norms and social demands . In: Saeculum 53 (2002), H. 1, pp. 21-73.
- Annette Kranz: Christoph Amberger - portrait painter to Augsburg. Urban elites in the mirror of their portraits . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-7954-1628-7
- Annette Kranz: Christoph Amberger 1500 / 05–1562, painter . In: Lebensbilder from Bavarian Swabia 18, 2014, pp. 147–181.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Amberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Christoph Amberger at Zeno.org .
- City archive Augsburg - Augsburg personalities
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amberger, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1505 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between November 1, 1561 and October 19, 1562 |
| Place of death | augsburg |