. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . and resemblesthem also in that he likes to use his fresh and humorousinvention in translating scenes of everyday life into littlegenre pictures. Like Barthel Beham, the Master I. fine judgment in the union of Italian and Germanprinciples of ornament. Heinrich Aldegrever is the single engraver of importancewhom Lower Germany has to show in the first half of thesixteenth century. Born at Paderborn in 1502, he workedas painter and engraver, principally at Soest, and was azealous supporter of the Reformatio
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . and resemblesthem also in that he likes to use his fresh and humorousinvention in translating scenes of everyday life into littlegenre pictures. Like Barthel Beham, the Master I. fine judgment in the union of Italian and Germanprinciples of ornament. Heinrich Aldegrever is the single engraver of importancewhom Lower Germany has to show in the first half of thesixteenth century. Born at Paderborn in 1502, he workedas painter and engraver, principally at Soest, and was azealous supporter of the Reformation. The latest dateappearing on his prints is 1555. Judging by his drawing,his composition and general treatment, he must have comeinto contact at an early period with the painters of theNetherlands, with Mabuse and Bernaert van Orley. Hewas a careful student of Diirers prints, and imitated him HEIXRICH ALDEGREVER 123 as well as Bcham and Fcncz. Aldegrevers figures oftenshow unpleasing mannerisms ; the bodies are too attenu-ated, the heads too small. His prints, about two hundred. •^ALOnQN • CWSAJ^- INTER. IJVAS • J^VTJEFXS • DiRLMlT • 1 • KeG\M. 3 : ] Fig. 56. Heiiirich Aldegrever : The Judgment of Solomon. and ninety in number, only a few of which exceed quitesmall dimensions, show sustained care and finish. Thoughhe was facile in invention, he frequently found occasion toborrow from Diirer and other masters. Aldegrever was a 124 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY (1527—1600) fine portrait painter, and his portrait engravings rank alsowith his best work. In two remarkable plates he picturedJohann Bockhold (John of Leyden), King of the Ana-baptists, and Bernhard Knipperdolling. His numerousprints of engraved ornament, among them daggers andhousehold utensils, such as spoons and buckles, show thetype which Renaissance forms took in Germany at the handsof such artists as did not come into direct contact with Italy. These leaders in the group of Little Masters werefollowed by a la
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