Thomas Holbein

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Holbein
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1983(1983-03-06)
Age	41
Date Of Death	January 1, 1543
Country	France
Birth City	Belfort
Horoscope	Pisces

Thomas Holbein Biography

Thomas Holbein is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on March 6, 1983 in Belfort, France. In Basel the legacy of Holbein was protected by his friend Amerbach and Amerbach’s son Basilius who collected his works. The Amerbach-Kabinett collection later became the basis collection of Holbein collection in the Kunstmuseum Basel. While Holbein’s work was highly valued in England however, only a only a few 16th-century English documents refer to his name. The Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504-75) observed that his portraits were “dilineated and expressed to the resemblance of life”. The end of the 16th century, the miniature painter Nicholas Hilliard spoke in his treatise Arte of Limning of his obligation to Holbein: “Holbein’s manner have I ever imitated, and hold it for the best”. The Holbein biography was published prior to Karel van Mander’s frequently incorrect “Schilder-Boeck” (Painter-Book) of 1604.

In 1517, a father and son started a project in Lucerne (Luzern) in 1517, where they painted interior and exterior murals for jakob of Hertenstein. In Lucerne Holbein also made drawings for stained-glass. According to the city’s records, on the 10th of December, 1517 Holbein was fined 5 livres for fighting with a goldsmith named Caspar who was also punished the same amount. In the winter of 1517, Holbein likely went to northern Italy but no evidence of his trip is found. Some scholars suggest that he studied the works by Italian masters of fresco, like Andrea Mantegna, before returning to Lucerne. He painted two panels at the house of Hertenstein with copies of the works of Mantegna, such as The Triumphs of Caesar.

Holbein also painted the occasional portrait in Basel, among them the double portrait of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, and, in 1519, that of the young academic Boniface Amerbach. According to art historian Paul Ganz, the portrait of Amerbach marks an advance in his style, notably in the use of unbroken colours. For Meyer, he painted an altarpiece of the Madonna which included portraits of the donor, his wife, and his daughter. In 1523, Holbein painted his first portraits of the great Renaissance scholar Erasmus, who required likenesses to send to his friends and admirers throughout Europe. These paintings made Holbein an international artist. Holbein visited France in 1524, probably to seek work at the court of Francis I. When Holbein decided to seek employment in England in 1526, Erasmus recommended him to his friend the statesman and scholar Thomas More. “The arts are freezing in this part of the world,” he wrote, “and he is on the way to England to pick up some angels”.

In 1519, Holbein moved back to Basel. His brother fades from the record at about this time, and it is usually presumed that he died. Holbein re- established himself rapidly in the city, running a busy workshop. He joined the painters’ guild and took out Basel citizenship. He married Elsbeth Binsenstock-Schmid, a widow a few years older than he was, who had an infant son, Franz, and was running her late husband’s tanning business. She bore Holbein a son of his own, Philipp, in their first year of marriage.

To Holbein, “everything began with a drawing”. An accomplished draughtsman, he was the heir to a German tradition of drawing lines and precise pre-design. Holbein’s ink and chalk portraits illustrate his skill in drawing outline. He would always draw sketches of his subjects however, there are many drawings that have no painting version is available, suggesting that certain drawings were made to be used for personal reasons. Holbein made only a handful of portraits during his time in Basel. One of them was his studies in 1516 of Jakob and Dorothea Meyer, sketched, as did his father’s portraits, with chalk and silverpoint.

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Thomas Holbein is one of the richest Association Football Player from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Holbein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The young Holbein together with his father and brother is featured on the left-hand panel in Holbein the Elder’s altarpiece from 1504, a triptych, the Basilica of St. Paul that is on display in the Staatsgalerie in Augsburg.

In 1515 Hans as well as Ambrosius had been relocating as journeymen artists into the town of Basel which was a center of learning as well as the printing industry. The brothers were trained by Hans Herbster, Basel’s leading painter. The brothers worked in Basel as woodcut designers or metalcuts designed for printers. In 1515 the theologian and preacher Oswald Myconius invited them to include drawings in the margins from The Praise of Folly by the humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. These sketches are early evidence of Holbein’s humor and humanistic inclinations. His later works like the double portraits of Basel’s mayor Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife Dorothea and his wife Dorothea, are in line with the style of his father.

Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519. Oil and tempera on pine, Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Noli me tangere, possibly 1524–26. Oil and tempera on oak, Royal Collection.

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Holbein painted most of his portraits during his two periods in England. In the first, between 1526 and 1528, he used the technique of Jean Clouet for his preliminary studies, combining black and coloured chalks on unprimed paper. In the second, from 1532 to his death, he drew on smaller sheets of pink-primed paper, adding pen and brushwork in ink to the chalk. Judging by the three-hour sitting given to him by Christina of Denmark, Holbein could produce such portrait studies quickly. Some scholars believe that he used a mechanical device to help him trace the contours of his subjects’ faces. Holbein paid less attention to facial tones in his later drawings, making fewer and more emphatic strokes, but they are never formulaic. His grasp of spatial relationships ensures that each portrait, however sparely drawn, conveys the sitter’s presence.

Who did Holbein marry?

Holbein entered the painters’ corporation in 1519, married a tanner’s widow , and became a burgher of Basel in 1520. By 1521 he was executing important mural decorations in the Great Council Chamber of Basel’s town hall.

Did Hans Holbein paint Anne Boleyn?

It seems more likely that the finished portrait Holbein painted of Anne Boleyn was destroyed after she was beheaded on May 19, 1536 on false charges of treason, adultery and incest.”

What is Hans Holbein style of art?

Northern Renaissance

Who was Henry VIII court painter?

Hans Holbein’s Portraits Defined—and Immortalized—Tudor England’s Elite. German artist Hans Holbein the Younger created his most famous portraits while working as a court painter for Henry VIII in 16th-century England.

Who was the ugliest wife of Henry VIII?

Anne of Cleves has gone down in history as the ugly wife. Henry VIII was so revolted when he first clapped eyes on her that he immediately instructed his lawyers to get him out of the marriage.