Hans Maler, 1517 - Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537) - fine art print

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Hans Maler worked as a portrait painter in the mining town of Schwaz, just east of Innsbruck. The Schwaz silver works belonged to the most prosperous in Europe, and Sebastian Andorfer, who is shown in this portrait at the age of forty-eight, was one of its leading officials. As Silberbrenner (refiner of silver) he was responsible for guaranteeing the purity of Schwaz silver, a major source of income for the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand and the Fugger family of Augsburg, whose likenesses Hans Maler also painted.

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This 16th century piece of art with the title Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537) was painted by the German artist Hans Maler in 1517. The original had the size: 17 x 14 1/8 in (43,2 x 35,9 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on swiss stone pine. Today, this artpiece belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection. This classic art public domain piece of art is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931. Creditline of the artwork: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931. The alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Hans Maler was a painter, whose artistic style was primarily Northern Renaissance. The German artist was born in 1475 in Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and died at the age of 54 in the year 1529.

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