Browse DSI

Details of the item << Previous Next >>

Last Name Breu

Given Name Jörg

alt. Names J. B. the elder; Breu the Elder / Jörg Preu / Prew / Breü ;

Marriage

Children ->Jörg Breu the Younger

Year born 1475 c. in Augsburg, Bavaria

Year died 1537

Place of death Augsburg, Bavaria

Father's occupation weaver

Relatives Klaus Breu (brother)

Education taughy by Ulrich I Apt ;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for duke Wilhelm IV ; E. Ratdolt: Missale Constantiense (1504) ; H. Otmar: Fortunatus (1509) ; L. Vartoman: Die Ritterlich und lobwirdig rayß ... ; A. Alciatus: Emblematum liber (1531) ; Splendor Solis oder Sonnenglanz. Sieben Tractate vom Stein der Weisen (1531/32)

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques historical, zoological (esp. animal) & alchemical drawing, painting xylography ;

Sample(s) https://smb.museum-digital.de/object/96929?navlang=de ; https://smb.museum-digital.de/objects?persinst_id=51710

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Breu_der_%C3%84ltere

Published sources NDB 2 (1955): 604–605; AKL 14 1996: 165 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Andrew Morrall: J.B. the Elder. Art, Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg (Aldershot 2001); Melanie Kraft: historia, narratio, exemplum: J.B. d. Ä. & die Historienbilder für das Herzoghaus München (Heidelberg 2020); Michael Philipp & Marianne Mathieu (eds.) Sonne. Die Quelle des Lichts in der Kunst, Potsdam & Munich 2023):19, fig. 11

other Further Places of Activity: Italy and Austria.

viaf1 29688598

viaf2

viaf3

Browse DSI

Done!