HOLBEIN HOLBEIN, AMBBOSmS, born in Augs- burg about 1494 (?), died after 1518. Ger- man school ; history painter, son and pupil of Hans Holbein the elder, whom he prob- ably assisted in his works, and with his brother, Hans the younger, went to Basle before or in 1515, to which year their first activity there can be traced, and where both were engaged chiefly in designing title-pages. Ambi'osius was admitted into the guild "Zum Himmel" in 1517, and acquired the citizen- ship in 1518, but all trace of him is lost in 1510. Works: Christ as Mediator, Two Bust-portraits of Boys, Two Skulls in Grated Window, Portrait of Jorg Schweiger (?), Basic Museum ; Portrait of Young Lady, Ambras Collection, Vienna ; do. of Young Man (15LS), Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Allgcm. d. Biogr., xii. 724 ; Woltmann, Hol- bein u. s. Zeit, i. 101. 110, 138, 202-212 ; ii. 31, 45, 48, 79, 92, 205 ; W. A: W., ii. 401 ; Ilepertorium f. K., i. 251 ; /aim's Jahr- biicher, v. 197. HOLBEIN, EDUAKD, born in Berlin in 1807, died there, Feb. 19, 1875. History and genre painter, pupil of Karl Begas, with whose works his first picture in 1830 was ranked. He took his great namesake, Hans Holbein the younger, for his model ; became professor at Berlin Academy, where his most famous pupil was Gtistav Richter. Works: Aged Pilgrim dying in Sight, of Jerusalem (1830) ; Madonna (1838) ; Twelve Patri- archs, Royal Chapel, Berlin. Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 69. HOLBEIN (Holbain), HANS, the elder, born in Augsburg about 1400, died there in 1524. Ger- man school ; history painter, influenced by Martin Schon- gauer, if not his pupil at Col mar, and the chief rep- resentative of re- alistic tendency in
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the school of Suabia under the influence of Italian renaissance. Works : Four Altar-panels (1493), Augsburg Cathedral ; Madonna Enthroned, do. (1499), Germanic Museum, Nuremberg ; Death of the Virgin (1490), Basle Museum ; Basilica, S. M. Maggiore (1499), Coronation of the Virgin and Scenes from Passion (1500), Transfiguration (1502), Basilica of St. Paul (1504), four Altar-panels (1512), Augsburg Gallery ; Seven Scenes from Passion (1501), Sti'ul el Gallery, Frankfort ; six others, Mu- seum, ib.; Last Supper, St. Leonard's, ib.; twelve scenes from Passion (1502 ?), Do- naueschingen Gallery ; sixteen panels with Episodes in Life of Mary and Scenes from Passion (1502), Altar of St. Sebastian (1516, masterpiece), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Vis- itation of the Virgin, National Museum, ib. ; Two Altarwings with Saints, Prague Gallery; Christ bearing the Cross (1515), Carlsruho Gallery ; Entombment (attributed to Sigis- inuiid H.), Portrait of Young Man (1515, attributed to Hans the younger), Darm- stadt Museum ; two portraits (1512), Hamp- ton Court Gallery. His brother, Sigismund, who appears in the rate-books of Augsburg, first in 1504, and who moved in 1519 to Berne, where he died in 1540, probably worked conjointly with him on several works. Allgem. d. Biogr., xii. 713 ; Cun- dall, H. Holbein ; Forster, ii. 213 ; Kugler (Crowe), i. 140 ; Nagler, Mon., iii. 157; Wolt- mann, Holbein und sein Zeit, i. 41-100; ii. 7, ' (il ; W. & W., ii. 110, 450 ; Graph. K, i. 110. HOLBEIN, HANS, the younger, born in Augsburg in 1497, died in London be- tween Oct. 7 and Nov. 29, 1543. Ger- man school ; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Hans Holbein the elder. After com- pleting his appren- ticeship he went to Basle with his brother, Ambrose, in 1515, served as journeyman under Herbster, Koch, 870
