Hans Burgkmair, German painter

German painter and engraver, Hans Burgkmair designed woodcuts and lived just outside of Augsburg (1473-1531), around the same time as Durer was active in Nuremburg. The son of a painter, he may also have apprenticed under Schongauer in the 1490s. He spent a short time in Italy, studying the Renaissance Masters and on his return to Germany, married the sister of Hans Holbein the Elder. His later paintings show Venetian colours and monumental figures in the style of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. His most famous work is St John's Altarpiece, 1518 at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.