Paul Lautensack, a German painter and organist

Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

, 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 1478, but in 1525, on account of his having embraced the reformed religion, he left that city and settled in 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...

, where he painted many subjects from the Apocalypse

Apocalypse

An Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...

, and also wrote some treatises upon it, which were collected and published at 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...

 in 1619. He, however, became so troublesome by reason of his fanaticism, that he was in 1542 expelled from the city, but after a time he was allowed to return, and is believed to have died there in 1558. There are still in Bamberg some of his paintings, chiefly copies of the prints of Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer was a German engraver and painter. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht Dürer....

 and the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...

. His portrait, dated 1529, is in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg.

Lautensack was the father of Hans Sebald Lautensack

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...

, a painter and printmaker, and the goldsmith and printer Heinrich Lautensack

Heinrich Lautensack

Heinrich Lautensack, a German painter and goldsmith, was born at Bamberg in 1522. He was a son of Paul Lautensack, with whom he went to Nuremberg whilst young. In 1550 he went to Frankfurt, whore he established the first collection of paintings, and in 1553 published a treatise on "Perspective". He...

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