Georg Pencz (1500-1550)

Aliases: Georg Benntz; Jorg Benntz; Jörg Benntz; Georg Bentz; Jorg Bentz; Jörg Bentz; Georg Benz; Jorg Benz; Jörg Benz; Jorg Pencz; Jörg Pencz; Georg Pens; Jorg Pens; Jörg Pens; Georg Pentz; Jorg Pentz; Jörg Pentz; Georg Penz; Jorg Penz; Jörg Penz; Georg Prenntz; Jorg Prenntz; Jörg Prenntz

Professions: Painter; copperplate engraver; Wood cutter; Freskant; Illustrator; Illuminator

Georg Pencz (? circa 1500-1550 Leipzig or Wroclaw)
Georg Pencz (circa 1500-1550 Leipzig or Wroclaw)
GEORG PENCZ CA.1500-1550
GEORG PENCZ CA.1500-1550

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Georg Pencz Biography

(b c. 1500; d Leipzig or Wroclaw, 10–15 Oct 1550). German painter, draughtsman and engraver. He arrived in Nuremberg in 1523 and entered Albrecht Dürer’s workshop. On 12 January 1525 he was imprisoned with the brothers Barthel Beham and Sebald Beham and charged with disseminating the radical views of Thomas Müntzer (c. 1490–1525) concerning religion and government. The council banished them from Nuremberg, but, after an appeal and intercession by Graf Albrecht von Mansfeld, Pencz was sent to nearby Windsheim, and on 16 November all three were pardoned, though placed under orders regarding their future behaviour. The three artists were later nicknamed the LITTLE MASTERS on account of their influential small-scale prints.

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