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BURCKMA1R visited Italy about 1507. He aimed at strong characterization rather than ideal form, and ranked among the best masters of his time. Works : Basilica Pictures (1501, 1502, 1504), Christ and Mary (1507), Crucifixion (1519), Battle at Canute (1529), all in Augsburg Gallery ; Ursula Altar (be- fore 1505), Dresden Gallery ; Saints (1505), Madonna (1510), both in Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; Madonna (1509), Museum, ib.; Pieta, Carlsruhe Gallery; Holy Family (1511), St. Ulric, St. Barbara, Berlin Mu- seum ; John Evangelist (after 1520), do., and St. John Baptist (1518), Duke William IV. of Bavaria (1526), ^. and Wife, Esther be- lo fore Ahasuerus (1528), HNGFBAT- IN' Old Pinakothek, Mu- AVCV STA* nich ; Portrait of him- n EGIA self and Wife (1526), Vienna Museum. All- t 1 1 % gem. d. Biog., iii. 576; Ch. Blanc, Ecole alle- mande ; Dohme, li. ; Nagler, MOD., iii. 237 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 195 ; Liibke, Geschichte der Renaissance in Deutschland, i. 55 ; Woltmann (Bennett), Holbein and his Time, 87; W. & W., ii. 446 ; iii. 237. BURCKMAIR, HANS, the younger, flourished in Augsburg until 1559. Ger- man school ; son and pupil of Hans the elder. Many of the pictures and wood-cuts ascribed to his father, bearing a later date than 1531, may be works of his hand. W. & W., ii. 450. BURCKMAIR (Burgkmair), THOMAN, born about the middle of 15th century, died in Augsburg, 1523. German school. The founder of a family of painters that flourished through several generations. According to his own statement in the Augs- burg record of painters, he became an ap- prentice in 1460. Figures short, flesh tones of a heavy brown, and outlines hard. Works: Christ conversing with St. Ulric, Virgin with St. Elizabeth (1480), Cathedral, Augsburg ; Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St I Lawrence, and Scenes from the Passion,

Augsburg Gallery. Kugler (Crowe), i. 144;

Schnaase, viii. 455 ; W. & W., ii. 116. BURG, ADRIAAN VAN DER, born at Dordrecht about 1697, died in 1737. ! Dutch school ; portrait painter ; pupil of Arnold Houbraken, whom he accompanied to Amsterdam. Works: Portraits of the seventeen directors of the mint, Dor- drecht BURGER, ANTON, born in Frankfort in 1825. Landscape and genre painter ; pupil at the Stadel Institute under Jakob Becker and Jakob Dielmann ; then for two years in Munich, and in 1856 in Diisseldorf ; visited Paris, the Netherlands, and Italy. Since 1857 settled at Cronberg in the Tau- nus. Great gold medal, Munich, 1869. I Works: Old City, Village Street, Farm- house, Beer Garden, Bowling Alley, Village Kitchen, Two Winter-Hunts (1879). Mul- ler, 85 ; Zeitscbr. f. b. K, xi. 113. BURGER, LUDWIG, born in Cracow, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1825, died in Berlin, Oct. 22, 1884. History painter and illustrator ; pupil of Berlin Academy, in 1852 of Ant- werp Academy, and in Paris under Couture. As illustrator for the Leipsic Illustrirte Zei- tung he visited Hungary in 1857, and joined the campaigns in Schleswig in 1864, and in Bohemia in 1866. From 1869 he turned to decorative painting, became mem- ber of the Berlin Academy, and visited Italy in 1872-73. Medal in Vienna, 1873 ; Munich, 1876. Works : Wall and Ceiling Paintings (1870), City Hall, Berlin ; Colos- sal Figures representing Military Virtues (1878), School of Cadets, Lichterfelde, near Berlin. Illust. Zeitg., 1876, ii. 145 ; Milller, 86. BURGESS, JOHN BAGNOLD, born in London in 1830. Genre painter ; son of H. W. Burgess, landscape painter to King William IV. ; pupil in London of Mr. Leigh, and of the Royal Academy. Draws his sub- jects largely from Spain and Morocco, which he has visited. Elected an A.R.A. in 1877. Works : Castilian Almsgiving (1859) ;