Heinrich Lautensack, a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 painter and goldsmith, was born at Bamberg

Bamberg

Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...

 in 1522. He was a son of Paul Lautensack

Paul Lautensack

Paul Lautensack, a German painter and organist, was born at Bamberg in 1478, but in 1525, on account of his having embraced the reformed religion, he left that city and settled in Nuremberg, where he painted many subjects from the Apocalypse, and also wrote some treatises upon it, which were...

, with whom he went to Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

 whilst young. In 1550 he went to Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

, whore he established the first collection of paintings, and in 1553 published a treatise on "Perspective". He died at Frankfurt in 1590. Some plates are attributed to him, but on very insufficient grounds; they are in the style of Hans Sebald Beham

Hans Sebald Beham

Hans Sebald Beham was a German printmaker who did his best work as an engraver, and was also a designer of woodcuts and a painter and miniaturist...

, though much inferior.

Lautensack's brother Hans

Hans Sebald Lautensack

Hans Sebald Lautensack, a German painter and etcher, was a son of Paul Lautensack, a painter of Bamberg, where he was born in 1524. Whilst he was yet a child his parents settled in Nuremberg, and there he lived during the greater portion of his life. In 1556 he was working in Vienna, where he died...

was also a printmaker.

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