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Exhibition of German portraiture around 1500 opens at the Hypo Cultural Foundation

MUNICH.- In collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Kunsthalle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation in Munich presents an exhibition on German portraiture around 1500. Around 170 outstanding artworks, including paintings by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), as well as formidable sculptures, medals, prints and drawings, demonstrate how individuals became the focal point of artistic interest in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and how artists developed into explorers and inventors of humankind. The exhibition explores the artist’s view of man during the transition of the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era in the German-speaking world. To date, early German portraiture has never been the exclusive subject of a large survey as the shadows of both Netherlandish and Italian counterparts have obscured