About Berthold Furtmeyr
Lived 1446 – 1600. Berthold Furtmeyr was a German painter, illuminator, miniaturist and artist.
Berthold Furtmeyr was a German miniaturist, attested as a citizen of Regensburg between 1470 and 1501.
He contributed to an Old Testament manuscript of G. Rorer between 1470 and 1472. His main work is the decoration of a missal of five volumes for archbishop Bernhard von Rohr, completed in 1481 or 1482.
Literature Edeltraud Jantschke: Stilkritische Beschreibung der Miniaturen des Regensburger Illuministen Berthold Furtmeyr. Erlangen 1951. Alheidis von Rohr: Berthold Furtmeyr und die Regensburger Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts. Bonn 1967 Johannes Janota (Hrsg.): Die Furtmeyr-Bibel in der Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Kommentar. Augsburg: Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH 1990
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Who was Berthold Furtmeyr?
German artist
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Berthold Furtmeyr was born in 1446 in Regensburg.
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Berthold Furtmeyr died in 1600 in Regensburg.
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Berthold Furtmeyr was a painter, illuminator, miniaturist and artist.
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Berthold Furtmeyr was German.
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