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Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475–1537), of Augsburg, was a painter of the German Danube school. He was the son of a weaver.

He journeyed to Austria and created several multi-panel altarpieces there in 1500–02, such as the Melk Abbey altar (1502).^[1] He returned to Augsburg in 1502, where he became a master. He travelled to Italy twice, in ca. 1508 and in 1514/15.

After his death in 1537, his son, Jörg Breu the Younger continued to lead his Augsburg workshop until his own death 10 years later.^[2]

References

^ Bruegel, Pieter, approximately (2017). Delphi complete works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. [Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom]. ISBN 978-1-78656-503-7. OCLC 990294244.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Morrall, Andrew (2016). Jörg Breu the Elder : art, culture, and belief in Reformation Augsburg. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-315-19314-4. OCLC 1005353910.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

Media related to Jörg Breu d. Ä. at Wikimedia Commons
Wolfgang Wegner (1955), "Breu, Jörg der Ältere", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 604–605; (full text online)
Jörg Breu the Elder at the J. Paul Getty Museum

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[1] Bruegel, Pieter, approximately (2017). Delphi complete works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. [Hastings, East Sussex, United Kingdom]. ISBN 978-1-78656-503-7. OCLC 990294244.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] Morrall, Andrew (2016). Jörg Breu the Elder : art, culture, and belief in Reformation Augsburg. Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 978-1-315-19314-4. OCLC 1005353910.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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