DOI issue:
Nr. 336 (May 1925)
DOI issue:Nr. 337 (June 1925)
DOI article:Fraser, A. E.: When Holbein painted an ''AD''
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0200
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"portrait of george gisze" by holbein
London might visit in this garden but only until
nine o'clock in the evening, for the Hansa mer-
chants believed firmly in the distich:
"Early to bed, and early to rise,
"Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
It was the League's custom to send to the
trading stations in foreign countries, so far as
possible, men from the same city. Holbein conse-
quently found himself very much at home during
his stay as a member of the Painters' Guild, in the
London Steelyard, since many of the men, besides
his friend of the portrait, were from Basel. In
this portrait the artist, as was his wont, tried to
give us, not only a life-size portrayal of the young
man, but his milieu, his daily work, customs.,
tastes. Holbein's art does not show the myste-
rious, haunting light and shadow of Rembrandt's
character study, nor is he able to give the sense
of plein air, of distance, of atmosphere, that fills
the spacious canvas of Velasquez. He paints with
photographic exactness, and no little penetration,
the man as he sees him; his sense of color is pure
and rich, although usually deliberately limited in
two hundred june 1925
"portrait of george gisze" by holbein
London might visit in this garden but only until
nine o'clock in the evening, for the Hansa mer-
chants believed firmly in the distich:
"Early to bed, and early to rise,
"Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
It was the League's custom to send to the
trading stations in foreign countries, so far as
possible, men from the same city. Holbein conse-
quently found himself very much at home during
his stay as a member of the Painters' Guild, in the
London Steelyard, since many of the men, besides
his friend of the portrait, were from Basel. In
this portrait the artist, as was his wont, tried to
give us, not only a life-size portrayal of the young
man, but his milieu, his daily work, customs.,
tastes. Holbein's art does not show the myste-
rious, haunting light and shadow of Rembrandt's
character study, nor is he able to give the sense
of plein air, of distance, of atmosphere, that fills
the spacious canvas of Velasquez. He paints with
photographic exactness, and no little penetration,
the man as he sees him; his sense of color is pure
and rich, although usually deliberately limited in
two hundred june 1925