Ludwig Refinger
Illustration — Horatius Cocles Stopping King Porsenna's Army outside Rome, by Ludwig Refinger (National Museum of Sweden) Ludwig Refinger (sometimes Reffinger, born c. 1515, died in Munich 1549) was a German Northern Renaissance painter.
Also recorded as Ludwig Reffineer · Ludwig Reffinger
Ludwig Refinger
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- Born
- 1510 · Ingolstadt.
- Died
- 1549 · Munich.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter
- Known for
- Horatius Cocles Stopping King Porsenna's Army outside Rome · Manlius Torquatus Fighting a Gaul
- Languages
- German
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The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich. Works named in the authority record are Horatius Cocles Stopping King Porsenna's Army outside Rome and Manlius Torquatus Fighting a Gaul. Work by Ludwig Refinger is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Moravian Gallery in Brno.
Refinger began his career as an apprentice to Wolfgang Mielich, and then started working with Barthel Beham. He received commissions by the Duke of Bavaria, William IV in 1537 and 1540. He contributed three pictures to a history cycle commissioned by the Duke. After Beham's death in 1540, he married his widow. In 1542 he again received a ducal commission, this time by Louis X to paint ceilings and design stained glass windows for the Landshut Residence. His paintings show similarities to those of Barthel Beham and Hans Schöpfer the Elder, as well as influences from Italian art from the beginning of the 16th century.
Manlius Torquatus Fighting a Gaul, painting by Ludwig Refinger (c. 1515-1549)
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Ludwig Refinger - Historienzyklus, Marcus Curtius opfert sich für das römische Volk - 687 - Bavarian State Painting Collections
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