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Heinrich Aldegrever (1502-1555)

Professions: copperplate engraver; Painter

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    Heinrich Aldegrever (<I>circa</I> 1502-1561)

    Heinrich Aldegrever (circa 1502-1561)

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    Heinrich Aldegrever (Paderborn 1502-1555 Soest)

    Heinrich Aldegrever (Paderborn 1502-1555 Soest)

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    HEINRICH ALDEGREVER (1502-1558)

    HEINRICH ALDEGREVER (1502-1558)

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    HEINRICH ALDEGREVER

    HEINRICH ALDEGREVER

Heinrich Aldegrever Biography

(b Paderborn, 1502; d Soest, Westphalia, 1555–61). German engraver, painter and designer. He was the most important graphic artist in Westphalia in the 16th century. His reputation rests largely on his ornamental designs, which make up about one third of his c. 300 engravings. They were principally intended as models for metalworkers but were also adapted by other craftsmen for such decorative arts as enamel, intarsia and book illustration. Aldegrever followed Dürer and the Nuremberg LITTLE MASTERS, deriving models for his paintings and subject prints as well as a full repertory of Renaissance ornamental motifs: fig and acanthus foliage, vases and cornucopia, combined with putti and satyrs, tritons, mermaids and dolphins, sphinxes, masks and medallions. From the beginning of his career Aldegrever was aware of the artistic trends of the time: the Dürer influence was strongest at its outset yielding somewhat in work of the 1530s to Mannerist tendencies under Netherlandish influence, though never waning entirely.

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