Paul Dax
Illustration — Paul Dax: Self-portrait, around 1530 Paul Dax (1503–1561) was an artist from the Holy Roman Empire. Known for his self-portrait dating to 1530, considered to be the earliest autonomous self-portrait from Austria. Dax was born in the Tyrol.
Also recorded as Paul Dax the Elder · Paul, The Elder Dax · Paul, I Dax
Paul Dax
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- Born
- 1503 · Sterzing.
- Died
- 1561 · Innsbruck.
- Nationality
- Austria
- Occupation
- painter · cartographer
- Languages
- German
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He led a very unsteady life, and after having gained reputation as a painter, he gave up art, and entered the army, engaging in several campaigns and the sieges of Naples, Florence, and Vienna. In 1530 he devoted himself to glass-painting, and his works, which are of considerable merit, are now in the court-house of Innsbruck, and in the town-hall at Ensisheim, Alsace. He also published several maps of his country. His death occurred in 1561.
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Paul Dax (1503 – 1561) was an architect, court painter, surveyor, glass painter, stained-glass artist and “Vermessungsingenieur”. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Paul Dax is recorded with the occupation cartographer. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as painter and cartographer.
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1503
Paul Dax was born on 1 January 1503.
1561
Paul Dax died on 1 January 1561.
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Sterzing.
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Innsbruck.
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- 1.Ernst Bacher, Günther Buchinger, Elisabeth Oberhaidacher-Herzig, Christina Wolf. Die mittelalterlichen Glasgemälde in Salzburg, Tirol und Vorarlberg. 2007. 978-3-205-77653-6.
- 2.„Dürerzeit“ im Belvedere. In: oe1.orf.at, 20. November 2021.
- 3.Wilfried Beimrohr: Warmund Ygl und seine Karte von Tirol (= Archiv & Quelle 32). Tiroler Landesarchiv, Innsbruck 2008 (PDF; 3 MB).
- 4.Stadt Innsbruck, Referat Statistik und Berichtswesen (Hrsg.): Straßennamen der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck. Innsbruck 2013, S. 18 (PDF; 274 kB).
- 5.Fassade des Ferdinandeums, 1884. sammellust.ferdinandeum.at.
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