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V—HANS SEBALD BEHAM.

Hans Sebald Beliam, painter and engraver; b. 1500; first dated
engraving 1518; first dated woodcuts 1520; worked at Nuremberg
under the influence of Diirer till 1525; was banished for his irreli-
gious opinions in January of that year, but returned in November;
accused in 1528 of plagiarism from Diirer’s unpublished work on the
proportions of the horse, he left Nuremberg again, but returned in
February, 1529 ; published woodcuts in 1527, 1529, and 1530 at
Ingolstadt, and in 1530 worked at Munich; was employed in 1531
by Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg at Aschaffenburg or Mentz ;
worked chiefly at Mentz and Frankfort-on-the-Main till 1535;
returned for a short time to Nuremberg, but resigned his citizenship
on 24 July, 1535, and resided thenceforth at Frankfort till his deatli
in 1550. His later woodcuts were published by Christian Egenolph
at Frankfort. A change in the form of his monogram—tlie substitu-
tion of B for P—coincides with his first removal to Frankfort in
1531.

Autliorities:—The older catalogues of Bartsch, Passavant, Eosen-
berg (1875), Aumuller (1881), and v. Seidlitz (1885) are superseded
by the recent catalogue of Dr. G-ustav Pauli, “ H. S. Beham, ein
kritisches verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche, Eadirungen and PIolz-
schnitte” (Stuclien zur dmtschen Kunstgeschichte, Heft 33), Ileitz,
Strassburg, 1901. The woodcuts are described, pp. 257-446, the
illustrated books, pp. 478-511. A large number of Beham’s wood-
cuts had hitherto been overlooked, or attributed, by Heller, Passa-
vant and others, to Diirer. Additions to Dr. Pauli’s catalogue, and
corrections of some errors, have appeared in reviews published in the
Mittheilungen cler Gesellscliaft fur vervielfdltigende Kunst, Yienna,
1903, p. 16, and Repertorium fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1902, xxv, 465.
The first of these articles deals almost exclusively with engravings,
the second with woodcuts.

The woodcuts are placed and described in the order of Pauli’s
catalogue. Table 2 of the Appendix, p. 490, may show how difficult
it would be to place them in chronological sequence.

Abbreviations :—

B.—Bartsch. “ Le Peintre-Graveur,” viii, 230-249.

P.—Passavant. “ Le Peintre-Graveur,” iv, 78-86.

R.—Rosenberg. “ Sebald und Bartliel Beham,” 117-134.