Heinrich Aldegrever
(1502–1558) German painter and engraver
Heinrich Aldegrever (Germany, 1502–1558) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Heinrich Aldegrever belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.
Heinrich Aldegrever was born in Paderborn and died in Soest. Heinrich Aldegrever studied under Ludger tom Ring the Elder. Heinrich Aldegrever worked in Bruges, Antwerp, and Soest.
The works belong mainly to the genres allegory, mythological art, and portrait. The catalogue has 137 works by Heinrich Aldegrever with free images. The dated works span the years 1525–1699. Works by Heinrich Aldegrever are held by several collections, among them Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, Musea Brugge, and drawings in the National Gallery of Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Mannerism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Hans Sebald Beham, Jacob Binck, Aachenaltarets mästare, Braunschweiger Monogrammist, and Pieter van Aelst.