German Painter, ca.1500-1562 German painter and draughtsman. His family came from the Upper Palatinate. He served his apprenticeship in Augsburg, probably with Leonhard Beck, whose daughter Barbara he married. He became a master on 15 May 1530 but rarely signed his work. He was in northern Italy and Venice c. 1525-7. His full-length pendant portraits of a husband and wife (both 1525; Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.) show Venetian influence, and the portrait of Anton Welser (1527; priv. col., see 1980 exh. cat., p. 98) is in the Italian style. According to Sandrart, during the Imperial Diet of 1530 in Augsburg Amberger painted a portrait of Emperor Charles V to the Emperor's satisfaction, but the surviving work (Berlin, Gem?ldegal.) dates from 1532, based on the age given. In the decades that followed, Amberger was the favourite portrait painter of ambitious merchant families, such as the Fugger, who belonged to guilds but were connected with the nobility by family or marriage ties.
Christoph Fugger Painting ID:: 4732
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1541 Wood, 97 x 80 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Goldsmith Jorg Zrer of Augsburg Painting ID:: 4733
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1531 Oil on panel, 78 x 51 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Portrait of Felicitas Seiler Painting ID:: 4734
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1537 Wood, 90 x 80 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Young Man in Fur Painting ID:: 4735
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Oil on wood, 50,5 x 42,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Portrait of Cornelius Gros Painting ID:: 28831
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