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Barthel Beham (1502–1540)

• Was a German engraver, miniaturist and painter.
• The younger brother of Hans Sebald Beham.
• He was born into a family of artists in Nuremberg.
• Learning his art from his elder brother, and Albrecht Dürer.
• In 1525, along with his brother and Georg Pencz, the so-called "godless painters", he was banished from Lutheran Nuremberg for asserting his disbelief in baptism, Christ, or transubstantiation.
• Although later pardoned, he moved to Catholic Munich to work for the Bavarian dukes William IV and Ludwig X. Whilst there.
• Beham was patroned by Emperor Charles V.
• According to Joachim von Sandrart, he died in Italy during a trip under the patronage of Duke William.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Barthel Beham, Portrait of the Strasbourg Johanniterkomturs Balthasar Gerhardi, 1528.
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Barthel Beham, Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480-1550), 1527

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2024.

Barthel Beham, Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480-1550), 1527

Barthel Beham, Portrait of an Arbitrator, 1529

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-20.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Man with a Black Cap in his Hand, c. 1525-30

Original, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Visited in 2018.

Barthel Beham, Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich, 1535

Original, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Visited in 2019.

Barthel Beham, Pfalzgraf Ottheinrich, 1535

Barthel Beham, Portrait of the Strasbourg Johanniterkomturs Balthasar Gerhardi, 1528

Original, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Visited in 2019.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of the Strasbourg Johanniterkomturs Balthasar Gerhardi, 1528

Barthel Beham, History cycle Finding the cross of St. Helena, 1530

Original, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Visited in 2019.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, 1529

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-20.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, 1529

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, 1529

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Woman with a Parrot, 1529

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Man from Hertz Family, before 1528

Original, The National Museum in Warsaw. Visited in 2021.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Man from Hertz Family, before 1528

Barthel Beham, Portrait of a Man from Hertz Family, before 1528

Barthel Beham, Adam and Eve

Original, The National Museum in Warsaw. Visited in 2021.

Barthel Beham, Adam and Eve

Barthel Beham, Portrait of Hans Urmiller and his Son, ca. 1525

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Barthel Beham, Portrait of Hans Urmiller and his Son, ca. 1525

Barthel Beham, Portrait of Hans Urmiller and his Son, ca. 1525

Barthel Beham, Vanitas, 1540

Original, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany. Visited in 2024.

Barthel Beham, Vanitas, 1540

Barthel Beham, Vanitas, 1540

Barthel Beham, Vanitas, 1540