Hans Asper
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Hans Asper (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 21 March 1571) was a Swiss painter best known for his portraits.
Life
Asper was born in c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in Zürich, where he lived his entire life. Nothing is known of him until 1526, when he married the daughter of Ludwig Nöggi, a master carpenter who sat in the city council, and Asper himself was a citizen of some standing, being elected to the Great Council in 1545. He is thought to have studied with Hans Leu the Younger, in Zürich, and appears to have received early influence in portrait painting from the works of Hans Holbein the Younger. His first artworks date from 1531, with possibly the most well-known portrait of Swiss reformator Huldrych Zwingli, painted with oil on parchment. In the same year Asper painted the interiors of some of Zürich's government buildings, being at the time the official painter to the city.[1]
He painted in a variety of styles, and is particularly known for his studies of flowers and fruit.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Many of his works are lost. Notable works include portraits of Huldrych Zwingli and Zwingli's daughter Regula Gwalter, which came into the ownership of the public library of Zürich. Asper is also believed to have provided the illustrations for Conrad Gesner's Script error: No such module "Lang"..Template:Sfn
Asper had a medal struck in his honor, but died in poverty in 1571.Template:Sfn Two of his eleven children, Hans Rudolf Asper and Rudolf Asper, were also painters.
Gallery
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Huldrych Zwingli, 1531
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Cleophea Holzhalb, 1538
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Huldrych Zwingli, 1549
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Wilhelm Frölich, 1549, Asper's only full-length portrait[1]
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Regula Gwalther Zwingli and Anna Gwalther, 1549, Huldrych Zwingli's daughter and granddaughter
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Pietro Martire Vermigli, 1560
![Wilhelm Frölich, 1549, Asper's only full-length portrait[1]](/wiki143/index.php?title=File:Wilhelm_Froelich_by_Hans_Asper.jpg){kind=link}
References
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External links
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- Objects related to Hans Asper in the Urus : Techniques and Reception of Graphic Art in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th centuries) database