Melchior Feselen
Illustration — Adoration of the Magi, 1522, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Melchior Feselen, an historical painter, of Passau, lived at the same time as Altdorfer, whose works he imitated with assiduity. Though he was inferior to that artist, his paintings are rich in composition, with a great number of figures highly finished, and in a style quite peculiar to himself. He died in Ingolstadt in 1538.
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Melchior Feselen
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- Born
- Melchior Feselen was born about 1495 (approximately). · Passau.
- Died
- Melchior Feselen died on 10 April 1538. · Ingolstadt.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · engraver
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Adoration of the Magi, 1522, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Melchior Feselen, an historical painter, of Passau, lived at the same time as Altdorfer, whose works he imitated with assiduity. Though he was inferior to that artist, his paintings are rich in composition, with a great number of figures highly finished, and in a style quite peculiar to himself. He died in Ingolstadt in 1538.
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Among his paintings are: • The Crucifixion, Darmstadt State Museum. • The Siege of Rome by Porsena, 1529, and Caesar conquering the town Alesia in Gaul, 1533, Munich, Alte Pinakothek. • The Adoration of the Magi, 1531, Nuremberg. Museum. • St. Mary of Egypt, Ratisbon.
Melchior Feselen is recorded with the occupation engraver. Recorded as a citizen of Germany. Recognition and collections.
Melchior feselen, annuncio ai pastori, 1531
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Melchior feselen, compianto della vergine, 1531
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1495
Melchior Feselen was born on 1 January 1495.
1538
Melchior Feselen died on 10 April 1538.
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Melchior Feselen was born at Passau.
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Melchior Feselen died at Ingolstadt.
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Ingolstadt.
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- 1.Friedrich Lenhardt: Coelum Ingolstadiense. Himmelsbilder in Ingolstadt um 1550. In: Rudolf Schmitz, Gundolf Keil (Hrsg.): Humanismus und Medizin. Acta humaniora, Weinheim an der Bergstraße 1984 (= Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Humanismusforschung. Band 11), S. 87–98, hier: S. 95 f.
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