Bartholomäus Hopfer (1628–1699) was a German painter. He was born in

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where he is known in period accounts as Hopffer.Bartholomäus Hopfer
in the

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He is sometimes referred to as "the Younger" to differentiate him from the Renaissance painter by the same name who was the father of

Daniel Hopfer Daniel Hopfer (circa 1470 in Kaufbeuren – 1536 in Augsburg) was a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking, at the end of the fifteenth century. He also worked in woodcut. Although his etchings wer ...

. It is unclear if he was a distant relation, but several generations of the Hopfer family were active as engravers in Augsburg, and this younger Hopfer was also active there and in Wickersheim before moving to Strasbourg, where he died.

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1628 births 1699 deaths 17th-century German painters German male painters Artists from Amsterdam {{Germany-painter-stub