Johann Hulsmann - Joh Friedrich Herzog von Braunschweig-Luneberg-Kalenburg - 1675

Johann Hulsman, or Hans Holsman (1610 – 1652), was a German Baroque painter active in

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Biography

According to Houbraken he was a painter from Cologne who painted for royalty, and Houbraken did not know more about him or his date of birth/death.Johann Hulsman Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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Houbraken's source was

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's work on painters called ''

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''.Hans Holsman
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Joachim Sandrart also mentioned him in his book of painters.Johann Hulsman
in the Teutsche Academie by Joachim Sandrart, 1680. According to the RKD he worked together with Johann Toussyn on a church altarpiece in Cologne.Johann Hulsman
in the

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He was influenced by

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and

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, and Jurgen Ovens. He was the teacher of

Johann Franz Ermels Johann Franz Ermels (1641 – December 1693), a German painter and engraver, a pupil of Holtzman, was born in Reilkirch. He resided at Nuremberg, and painted for the church of St. Sebald in that city a picture of the ''Resurrection''; he was m ...

, and was active in Cologne during the years 1632-1646.

References

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