Hans Holbein the younger . CHAPTER II YOUTHFUL DAYS IN AUGSBURG Birth of Hans Holbein the Younger—Forgeries of dates on early pictures attributed to him—Various portraits bearing on the question of the year of his birth—His early life inAugsburg—The family house on the Vorderer Lech—Early training in his fathers studio—Hans Burgkmair—Augsburg and the decorative arts. ,0 absolutely conclusive proof has yet been discoveredof the exact date of the birth of Hans Holbein theYounger. For years the question was complicated bymore than one forgery of dates and signatures oncertain pictures in Augsburg
Hans Holbein the younger . CHAPTER II YOUTHFUL DAYS IN AUGSBURG Birth of Hans Holbein the Younger—Forgeries of dates on early pictures attributed to him—Various portraits bearing on the question of the year of his birth—His early life inAugsburg—The family house on the Vorderer Lech—Early training in his fathers studio—Hans Burgkmair—Augsburg and the decorative arts. ,0 absolutely conclusive proof has yet been discoveredof the exact date of the birth of Hans Holbein theYounger. For years the question was complicated bymore than one forgery of dates and signatures oncertain pictures in Augsburg, and by spurious amplifi-cations made in the modern copies taken from certainentries in the annals of the convent of St. Catherine. Owing to theseforgeries, Dr. Woltmann, in the first edition of his book,1 advanced theopinion that Holbein was born in 1495 ; but before the publication ofthe first volume of the second edition of his work, in 1874, these inscrip-tions and entries had been proved to be falsifica
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