Hans Süss von Kulmbach, 1508 - Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland - fine art print

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Hans Süss von Kulmbach had been apprenticed to the Italian painter and printmaker Jacopo de’ Barbari, who worked at a number of German courts in the first decade of the sixteenth century. The latter’s influence must have continued even after Kulmbach joined Dürer’s Nuremberg studio in 1507, since this portrait of an unidentified young man, which dates from about 1508, is stylistically very close to Barbari's earlier Portrait of a Man (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). The panel is unique in Kulmbach’s oeuvre, as it joins a portrait with an allegorical subject on the verso. Reverse label: This charming genre depiction represents a girl making a garland of forget-me-nots, one of which lies on the windowsill. A decoratively trailing banderole above reads, in translation, "I bind with forget-me-nots." Symbolizing a lover or prospective bride, the young maiden seems to address the young man who appears on the other side of the panel, promising to bind her heart faithfully to him. The prominently placed cat—a symbol of respectable, constant love in the art of the period— also refers to her commitment and affection.

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The 16th century painting was created by the male German painter Hans Süss von Kulmbach in 1508. The masterpiece had the size: 7 x 5 1/2 in (17,8 x 14 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on poplar. Furthermore, this piece of art can be viewed in in the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. Further, the alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Hans Süss von Kulmbach was a male painter, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Northern Renaissance. The artist lived for a total of 42 years, born in 1480 and died in 1522.

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