St. Christopher., Heinrich Aldegrever, engraver (printmaker), 1527, Germany, engraving, Heinrich Aldegrever was one of the so-called 'Little Masters', a group of German artists making small prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer, who included Hans Baldung Grien, the Beham brothers and Georg Pencz. The close resemblance of his early work (as here) to that of Dürer led to Aldegrever being called the 'Albert of Westphalia', although his style went on to depart from his mentor's intricate line work to stress the optical effects of light and shadow. Aldegrever became a Lutheran convert in 1531, four years after this early career engraving, however, its theme would have been equally acceptable to Protestants and Catholics. Many of his subsequent works were ornamental engravings, used as models by artists and craftsmen well into the 17th century, while his images of virtues and vices are well represented in Te Papa's collection.
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