Possible portrait of Martin Schongauer, associated with Thoman Burgkmair and his son Hans Burgkmair the Elder[1]
Martin Schongauer (c. 1450–53, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schön ("Martin beautiful") or Hübsch Martin ("pretty Martin") by his contemporaries,[2][3] was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer, a younger artist who collected his work. Schongauer is the first German painter to be a significant engraver, although he seems to have had the family background and training in goldsmithing which was usual for early engravers.[4]
The bulk of Schongauer's surviving production is 116 engravings,[5] all with his monogram but none dated,[6] which were well known not only in Germany, but also in Italy and even made their way to England and Spain.[7] Vasari says that Michelangelo copied one of his engravings, in the Trial of Saint Anthony. His style shows no trace of Italian influence, but a very clear and organised Gothic, which draws from both German and Early Netherlandish painting.
Recent scholarship, building on the work of Max Lehrs, attributes 116 engravings to him, with many also being copied by other artists (including his monogram), as was common in the period. His prolific contemporary Israhel van Meckenem did close copies of 58 engravings, exactly half of Schongauer's output, and took motifs or figures from more, as well as apparently engraving some drawings that are now lost.[8]
There are some fine drawings, including ones dated and signed with his monogram, and a surviving few paintings in oil and fresco.
^This painting, in Munich, appears to be a 16th-century copy, possibly by Hans Burgkmair, of a lost original painting or drawing, presumably of 1483 (the date on the painting), perhaps by Thoman Burgkmair. See Hutchison, 6 note 2; Shestack, 87
^"Der hübsche Martin... Martin Schongauer". smb.museum. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
^"Martin Schongauer German engraver". britannica.com. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
^Shestack, biography
^Max Lehrs' count, followed by Shestack and Hutchison, though there is now doubt over one – see Bartrum, 20
MartinSchongauer (c. 1450–53, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schön ("Martin beautiful") or Hübsch Martin ("pretty Martin")...
fond of wild men, wild women, and wild families, with examples from MartinSchongauer (died 1491) and Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) among others. The normal...
the temptation, by seductive women and other demonic forms, but the MartinSchongauer composition (copied by Michelangelo) probably shows a later episode...
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in the old master prints of the fifteenth century. Master ES and MartinSchongauer in engraving and Erhard Reuwich and Michael Wolgemut in woodcut were...
with the apostles gathered round the bed. A virtuoso engraving by MartinSchongauer of about 1470 shows the Virgin from the foot of a large bed with the...
des Dominicains – 1289–1364. Now disaffected as a church, displays MartinSchongauer's masterwork Madonna of the Rose Bower as well as 14th century stained...
Michelangelo, who painted a close copy of the famous engraving by MartinSchongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old. Whether the painting is actually...
(1467–1483) Hendrick ter Brugghen, c. 1622 Kneeling and touching, MartinSchongauer and workshop, panel from a late 15th-century altarpiece Kneeling and...
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Thorns (National Gallery, London) c. 1495 and beyond: followers of MartinSchongauer paint the colossal Buhl Altarpiece 1496 An anonymous portrait of Jacob...
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starting from a youthful phase inspired by the models of Albrecht Durer, MartinSchongauer, and Lucas van Leyden, gradually distanced from these artists and...
the temptation, by seductive women and other demonic forms, but the MartinSchongauer composition (copied by Michelangelo) probably shows a later episode...
monumental masterwork, all three painted works by the Colmar native MartinSchongauer held in Colmar: the Orlier Altarpiece (1470–1475), the Altarpiece...
He also produced a few engravings, including copies of works by MartinSchongauer and Albrecht Dürer. He produced innovative drawings intended as finished...
medieval and early Renaissance art, among which the Colmar native MartinSchongauer occupies the most prominent place with several altarpieces and a large...
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