Hans Vredeman de Vries
(1527–1609) holländsk konstnär, arkitekt och konstteoretiker
Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–1609) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, a draughtsman, and a designer. By year of birth, Hans Vredeman de Vries belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.
Hans Vredeman de Vries was born in Leeuwarden and died in Hamburg. Hans Vredeman de Vries worked in Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick. Hans Vredeman de Vries was awarded Grand Seigneur. The students included Paul Vredeman de Vries, Isaak van den Blocke, and Hendrik van Steenwijk I.
The best-known works include ‘Palace Gardens with Poor Lazarus in the foreground’ and ‘Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplicis formae ad architectonicae artis normam affabre delineatae’. The catalogue has 23 works by Hans Vredeman de Vries with free images. The dated works span the years 1550–1601. Works by Hans Vredeman de Vries are held by several collections, among them Musea Brugge, Kunsthistorisches Museum, cabinet of Curiosities of Emperor Rudolf II. Habsburg, and Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Hubert Goltzius, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Marten Van I Cleve, and Melchior Lorck.