Portrait of Jakob Muffel [SEP] collection
Portrait of Jakob Muffel
The Portrait of Jakob Muffel is a painting by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer, signed and dated from 1526, now housed in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany.
The work was executed in Nuremberg, the same year in which the German artist portrayed Johann Kleberger and Hieronymus Holzschuher. Jakob Muffel was burgomaster of the city in the year in which Dürer had donated it his four panels of "The Four Apostles" and the two paintings are perhaps related to each other.
The panel is the
1526 in art
The year 1526 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events.
- German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England.
Works.
- Lucas Cranach the Elder – ""
- Albrecht Dürer
- "Erasmus of Rotterdam" (engraving)
- "The Four Apostles"
- "Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher"
- "Portrait of Jakob Muffel"
- Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola – "The Virgin and Child