Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 – 1543) was a German painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style.

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Hans Holbein the Younger (German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 – 1543) was a German painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called “the Younger” to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.

Holbein was born in Augsburg, but he worked mainly in Basel as a young artist. At first, he painted murals and religious works, designed stained glass windows, and printed books. He also painted an occasional portrait, making his international mark with portraits of humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. When the Reformation reached Basel, Holbein worked for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons. His Late Gothic style was enriched by artistic trends in Italy, France, and the Netherlands, as well as by Renaissance humanism. The result was a combined aesthetic uniquely his own.

Holbein’s fame owes something to that of his sitters. Several of his portraits have become cultural icons. He created the standard image of Henry VIII. In painting Henry as an iconic hero, however, he also subtly conveyed the tyranny of his character. Holbein’s portraits of other historical figures, such as Erasmus, Thomas More, and Thomas Cromwell, have fixed their images for posterity. The same is true for the array of English lords and ladies whose appearance is often known only through his art. For this reason, John North calls Holbein “the cameraman of Tudor history”. In Germany, on the other hand, Holbein is regarded as an artist of the Reformation, and in Europe of humanism.

Works of Hans Holbein the Younger
Double Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and Dorothea Kannengießer (1516)The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520–1522)Solothurn Madonna (1522)Venus and Amor (1524)Lais of Corinth (c. 1524)Darmstadt Madonna (1526)Sir Thomas More and Family (1527)Portrait of Sir Thomas More (1527)Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (1526–1528)Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer (1528)Portrait of Georg Giese (1532)The Ambassadors (1533)Portrait of Thomas Cromwell (c. 1532–1534)Portrait Miniature of Margaret Roper (1535–36)Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell (1536–37)Portrait of Henry VIII (1536–37)Portrait of Christina of Denmark (1538)Portrait of Jane Small (c. 1540)Self-portrait (1542–43)Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam