Ulrich Apt the Elder
Illustration — The Lamentation by Ulrich Apt the Elder, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1510 Ulrich Apt the Elder (1460–1532) was a German Late-Gothic painter.
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Ulrich Apt the Elder
Ulrich Apt the Elder · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Rogers Fund, 1912 · Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access)
- Born
- 1460 · Augsburg.
- Died
- 1532 · Augsburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — The Lamentation by Ulrich Apt the Elder, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1510 Ulrich Apt the Elder (1460–1532) was a German Late-Gothic painter.
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The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Augsburg. Work by Ulrich Apt the Elder is recorded in the collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Lázaro Galdiano Museum.
Apt was born in Augsburg, and lived and worked there all of his life. He became an independent master in 1481. He ran a workshop in Augsburg with his three sons Jacob, Ulrich Apt the Younger, and Michael, all artists, producing primarily religious themed works. He died in Augsburg in 1532.
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- 1.Porträt eines alten Mannes.
- 2.Stephan Kemperdick (Bearb.): Das Frühe Porträt. Aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein und dem Kunstmuseum Basel. Prestel, München u. a. 2006, S. 62–65, Kat. Nr. 6.
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