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Brosamer, Hans
(b ?Fulda, c. 1500; d ?Erfurt, 1554 or after). German painter, draughtsman, engraver and woodcut designer. He worked in Fulda from c. 1520 to the mid-1540s, as is known from a series of dated paintings and copper engravings, including portraits of distinguished citizens of Fulda. Of the few surviving portraits, mainly from the 1520s, only one, that of Chancellor Johannes von Othera (1536; Switzerland, priv. col.), is signed with his full name. All have brownish flesh tones and a green background and are typified by rather angular faces, a certain stiffness and an interest in fine materials. A group of portraits bearing the monogram HB and a griffin’s head and also dating from the 1520s, which has been associated with this series, cannot be attributed to Brosamer with certainty; they mostly represent leading citizens of Nuremberg and are closer to Lucas Cranach (i) in character.
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