The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating its spring 2024 exhibition to three outstanding pioneers of the Renaissance north of the Alps: Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair and Albrecht Dürer. Experience fascinating works by these artists and discover how Augsburg became the birthplace of the Renaissance in the north.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Fugger city of Augsburg was influenced by Italian art more than almost any other metropolis north of the Alps. This is impressively demonstrated by the most important Augsburg painters of this period: Hans Holbein the Elder (around 1464-1524) and Hans Burgkmair (1473-1531). In the exhibition in Vienna, exquisite works by these two contrasting artists enter into a moving dialog with works by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and other German, Italian and Dutch masters such as Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), who came from Augsburg. More than 160 paintings, sculptures and other works from many of the most important collections in Europe and the United States are on display in Vienna.
Leonhard Beck, St. George's Dragon Fight, Augsburg, c. 1513/14, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. no. 5669.
The upheavals in art around 1500 are brought to life and made comprehensible, as is the role of the imperial and trading city of Augsburg as the center of the Renaissance in the north. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where it will be shown from November 2, 2023 to February 18, 2024 under the title Holbein and the Renaissance in the North.
March 19 to June 30, 2024
