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Angermair, Christoph
(b Weilheim, Bavaria, c. 1580; d Munich, 6 June 1633). German ivory-carver and sculptor. He was the first in a line of 17th-century south German ivory-carvers who served the taste of princely and aristocratic patrons for small-scale carvings for their Kunstkammern. Angermair worked mainly at the Munich court of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria; his works reveal a high degree of virtuosity, and minute details are worked with a precision reminiscent of goldsmith’s work. As his style developed, the modelling became softer, but there was always a certain stiffness in his compositions.
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