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Born in Augsburg, Leonhard Beck (circa 1480-1542) was an important printmaker, miniaturist and painter.
He began his artistic career as an apprentice in the workshop of the painter Hans Holbein the Elder. Although his initial training was focused on painting, in the second decade of the 16th century he specialized in the production of woodcuts.
He contributed a large number of woodcuts for the various genealogical and historical projects commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I (1486-1519).
Beck created his most ambitious woodcuts for another imperial commission, Saints Related to the House of Habsburg (circa 1516-18), a series consisting of 123 images all designed by him. Read the full biography

Born in Augsburg, Leonhard Beck (circa 1480-1542) was an important printmaker, miniaturist and painter.
He began his artistic career as an apprentice in the workshop of the painter Hans Holbein the Elder. Although his initial training was focused on painting, in the second decade of the 16th century he specialized in the production of woodcuts.
He contributed a large number of woodcuts for the various genealogical and historical projects commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I (1486-1519).
Beck created his most ambitious woodcuts for another imperial commission, Saints Related to the House of Habsburg (circa 1516-18), a series consisting of 123 images all designed by him. Most of these woodcuts still show a clear debt to Burgkmair, to whom most of Beck's works had been attributed before he was finally recognized as an artistic figure in the late 19th century.
In addition to the imperial commissions, there are also a series of woodcuts created for liturgical books, religious literature, heraldic and satirical images.