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Georg Flegel (1566-1638)

Aliases: Georg (1563) Flegel; Georg (1566) Flegel; Jiří Flegel; Jiří Flegeli; Jiří Flegelius; Jiří Flegels

Professions: Still life painter

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Georg Flegel Biography

(b Olmütz [Olomouc], Moravia, 1566; d Frankfurt am Main, 1638). German painter. He was the son of a shoemaker, and not being a Roman Catholic, probably moved to Vienna after 1580, when the Counter-Reformation began to take effect in Olmütz. In Vienna he became the assistant of Lucas van Valckenborch I, whom he subsequently followed to Frankfurt, then an important centre for art dealing and publishing. He filled in staffage in van Valckenborch’s pictures of the seasons and portraits, inserting fruit, table utensils and flowers as still-life set pieces. His faithful reproduction of flowers and fruit drew on watercolours by Dürer, still-life painters from the Netherlands living in Frankfurt, and botanical and zoological illustrations by Joris Hoefnagel, Pieter van der Borcht IV and Carolus Clusius (1525–1609) then being published in Frankfurt.

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