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(2) Hans Dürer
(b Nuremberg, 21 Feb 1490; d ?1538). Painter, brother of (1) Albrecht Dürer. He was first trained in the workshop of his elder brother Albrecht, who wrote to their mother from Venice on 2 April 1506 to ask her to try to get him taken on by Michael Wolgemut or some other painter. In 1509 Hans was again working for his brother, and he was paid a gratuity for the Heller Altarpiece (1508–9; ex-Residenz, Munich; destr. 1729). He was last mentioned in Nuremberg in 1510. Attribution to him of a Portrait of a Young Man (1511; Rome, Gal. Spada) painted in the manner of Albrecht Dürer and of an altarpiece of the Holy Kindred (1515; s’Heerenberg (Gelderland), Huis Bergh, see Winkler, p. 73, fig. 10) in the style of the school of Dürer remains uncertain, despite the presence of the monogram HD on both works, as does the attribution of an unmonogrammed altarpiece of the Calling of St Peter (Rochlitz, St Kunigunde). An altarpiece of the Fourteen Auxiliary Saints (1524; Nysa, Poland, St James) signed HD makes it likely that he spent some time in Silesia. From 1527 he was recorded as receiving payments in Kraków, and from 1529 he was named as court painter to Sigismund I, King of Poland.
Part of the Dürer family
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