Ludolph Büsinck (c.1600–1669) was a German painter and

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, born at

Hann. Münden Hann. Münden (short for Hannoversch Münden) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. Münden lies in the district of Göttingen at the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers, which join to form the Weser. It has about 24,000 inhabitants (2013). I ...

in the 1590s. He worked in

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between 1623 and 1630, where he produced a series of chiaoscuro woodcuts, the first to be made in France. His name is sometimes spelled "Buesinck".

Life

Büsinck was born at

in central Germany between 1599 and 1602, a son of Johann Büsinck and his wife, Kunigunde Voss. He married Katharina Ludwig, with whom, according to baptismal records, he had six children.Gealt, Adelheid M., ''Beyond Black & White: Chiaroscuro Prints from Indiana Collections'', Indiana University Art Museum, 1989 He may have trained as an artist in the Netherlands. Between 1623 and 1630 he is known to have been in Paris, where he made a number of dated chiaroscuro prints, some of which were published by

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. They are boldly cut works in the tradition of the Dutch printmaker

Hendrick Goltzius Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (; ; January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his ...

. He was the first artist to make chiaroscuro woodcuts in France, and most his works in this technique were based on drawings by the painter

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, although one, probably his first, is after a painting by

Abraham Bloemaert Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. He was initially working in the style of the "Haarlem Mannerists", but in the 16th century altered his style in line with the ...

. He is not known to have made any woodcuts after 1630. He returned to Hann. Münden, where he became a member of the merchants' guild (''Kaufmannsgilde'') in 1639. He is known to have been active as a painter in the 1630s, his works including an altarpiece for the high altar of the church of St John in

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

. In 1647 he is recorded as acting as a customs official. He died at Münden on 15 January 1669.

Works

His prints include religious subjects, and images of cavaliers, peasants, musicians and beggars. His work is kept in many museums worldwide, including the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the United States. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall ori ...

, the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

References

Bibliography

*Hollstein, F. W. H., ''Dutch And Flemish Etchings, Engravings And Woodcuts c. 1450–1700'', Amsterdam, 1949 *Strauss, Walter L., ''Chiaroscuro: The Clair-Obscur Woodcuts By The German And Netherlandish Masters Of The XVI And XVII Centuries'', London, Thames & Hudson, 1973 * Roethlisberger, Marcel G., ''Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings And Prints'', 2 vols., Ghent, 1993 *Stechow, Wolfgang, ''Ludolph Buesinck''

The Print Collector’s Quarterly ''The Print Collector's Quarterly'' (initially hyphenated as ''The Print-Collector's Quarterly''), was a quarterly periodical that was begun in 1911 and continued under various publishers until 1950. The original founders were art dealer Frederick ...

1938 Dec Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 393 *Stechow, Wolfgang, ''Catalogue of the Woodcuts by Ludolph Buesinck''

1939 Oct Vol. 26, No. 3, p. 349

References

External links

www.artistarchive.com
A catalogue of more than 35 prints by Büsinck with reference numbers, many with images. {{DEFAULTSORT:Buesinck, Ludolph German engravers People from Hann. Münden Year of birth unknown 17th-century German painters Year of birth uncertain 1669 deaths 17th-century engravers Artists from Lower Saxony