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Article: Holbein, Hans, the Younger (1497/98–1543)
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HOLBEIN, HANS, THE YOUNGER (1497/98
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1543)
HOLBEIN, HANS, THE YOUNGER
(1497/98
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1543), German portrait painter. Hans Holbein the Younger, a painter and designer of stained glass, woodcuts, and jewelry, was born in Augsburg to a family of artists. His father Hans the Elder (active c. 1490
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1523) was probably his first teacher, and his uncles Sigmund Holbein and Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473
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c. 1531) were important early influences. He left Augsburg at eighteen to join his elder brother Ambrosius (1493/94
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1519?) in Basel as journeymen in the workshop of the leading painter there, Hans Herbst, or Herbster (1470
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1552), and collaborated on the ...
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