Jörg Breu the Younger

Jörg Breu the Younger (* after 1510 in Augsburg ; † 1547 in Augsburg) was a painter , miniaturist and draftsman.

Life

After training, presumably with his father Jörg Breu the elder , he took over his workshop and master craftsman's rights in Augsburg in 1534. Ottheinrich von der Pfalz was his most important client, and in 1536/37 Breu took on the painting of some of the rooms in his hunting lodge in Grünau near Neuburg an der Donau .

In Augsburg in 1538 he renewed the equipment of the guild room in the weaver's house .

Works

painting

• Conquest of Rhodes by Queen Artemisia, oil on wood, 1535. Bavarian State Painting Collection Munich

Woodcuts

• The rich Prasser and the poor Lazarus, dated 1535
• Garden Festival in Venice, 1539
• The story of Susanna, dated 1540
• Kaiserl. Sleigh ride, around 1540
• The Siege of Algiers, monogr. and dated 1541
• Battle scene, 1543
• Sacrifice of Isaac, 1545

literature

• Wolfgang Wegner:  Breu, Jörg the Younger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 605 ( digitized version ).
• Wolf Seiter: The viewer as prey. The genre of the hunting motif as a Christian and political determination of the position in a woodcut Jörg Breus the Elder. J. of 1535 ; in: Peiraikos' heirs. The genesis of genre painting until 1550 , ed. by Birgit Ulrike Münch and Jürgen Müller, Trier Contributions to the Historical Sciences 14, Wiesbaden 2015, pp. 151–173.

Web links

Commons : Jörg Breu d. J.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Our Lady with Jesus ( Memento from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• The Fugger's book of honor (from the workshop of Jörg Breu dJ) - high-resolution digitized version in the bavarikon culture portal

Individual evidence

1. ^ The fairy tale of the snappy mare in FAZ from October 16, 2013, page N3