Jörg Breu the Elder
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Christ Crowned With Thorns
Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of Augsburg, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver.
He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the Melk Altar (1502). He returned to Augsburg in 1502 where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice, in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15.
After his death in 1537, his son, Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.
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Media related to Jörg Breu d. Ä. at Wikimedia Commons
- Wolfgang Wegner (1955), "Breu, Jörg der Ältere", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 604–605; (full text online)
- Jörg Breu the Elder at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Categories:
- 1470s births
- 1537 deaths
- 15th-century German painters
- German male painters
- 16th-century German painters
- German Renaissance painters
- Artists from Augsburg
- German painter stubs