Thoman Burgkmair

Hans Burgkmair the Elder is recorded as having studied under Thoman Burgkmair. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Augsburg. Work by Thoman Burgkmair is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Museum of the Diocese of Rottenburg.

• Name — Thoman Burgkmair • Native Name — Thoman Burgkmair • Birth Name — Thoman Burgkmair • Born — c. 1444 • Birthplace — Augsburg (free imperial city), Holy Roman Empire • Died — 1523 • Place of death — Augsburg (free imperial city), Holy Roman Empire • Movement — Late Gothic Thoman Burgkmair, or Thomas Burgkmair (died 1523) was a German painter.

The father of Hans Burgkmair, and the father-in-law of Hans Holbein the elder, he is mentioned in the records of the Painters' Guild at Augsburg in 1460, and in public documents there in 1479. In 1480 he painted a Christ with St. Ulric and a Virgin with St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, both in the cathedral at Augsburg; the gallery of that city also possesses a picture by him of the Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, and scenes from the Passion. Burgkmair died at Augsburg in 1523.

• Illustration — Finding of the cross by Empress Helena • Illustration — Saint Helena and Saint Sebastian • Illustration — Emperor Heraclius carries the cross • Illustration — Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara • Illustration — Jakob Fugger and Sybille Artzt