(Encyclopedia) Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald), 1944–2001, German novelist, grad. Freiburg Univ. (1965). Sebald's novels are dense, elegiac, and meditative. They mingle fiction with…
(Encyclopedia) BehamBehambāˈhäm [key] or PehamPehampā– [key], name of two German Renaissance artists, brothers, who were both influenced by Dürer and later by Italian art. Hans Sebald Beham, 1500–…
(Encyclopedia) Kulmbach, Hans vonKulmbach, Hans vonhäns fən k&oobreve;lmˈbäkh [key], c.1480–1522, German painter and graphic artist. His real name was Hans Süss. In general his work reveals the…
(Encyclopedia) Kraft or Krafft, AdamKraft or Krafft, Adamboth: äˈdäm kräft [key], c.1455–1509, German sculptor of Nuremberg. He moved from an ornamental late Gothic style toward clarity, symmetry,…
(Encyclopedia) Pachelbel, JohannPachelbel, Johannpäkhĕlˈbĕl, päkhˈəlbĕlˌ [key], 1653–1706, German organist and composer, b. Nuremberg. He held a number of posts as an organist in German churches,…
(Encyclopedia) Vischer, PeterVischer, Peterpāˈtər [key]Vischer, Peter fĭshˈər [key], the elder, c.1455–1529, German sculptor, foremost of the bronze founders in Germany. Beginning as the assistant of…
(Encyclopedia) NurembergNurembergn&oobreve;rˈəmbərg [key], Ger. NürnbergNurembergnürnˈbĕrkˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 498,945), Bavaria, S Germany, on the Pegnitz River and the Rhine-Main-Danube…
(Encyclopedia) German art and architecture, artistic works produced within the region that became politically unified as Germany in 1871 generally followed the stylistic currents of Western Europe…
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