Artist: Urs Graf (1485 - 1527)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Painting,Engraving
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Biography:
Urs Graf was initially trained by his father and then apprenticed to a local goldsmith in Zurich. He first made a living by designing book illustrations and working as the assistant to a stained-glass painter. He entered the goldsmith’s guild in 1512 and became a citizen of Basel. He was repeatedly arrested for beating his wife and supporting prostitution until in 1518, he was forced to leave after a murder attempt. The city invited him to return and work as the mint’s die cutter in 1519, but he left the city once again eight years later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
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Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
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Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, The Passion, 1520
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Untitled, 1966
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Untitled, 1966
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Untitled, 1966
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Untitled, 1966
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Emil Nolde, Der Graf (The Count), 1918
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, The Dark Night, 1960
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Gentle Unicorn, 1974
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Progress of the Soul:The Departure, 1960
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Urs Graf, Christ Before Pilate, 15th - 16th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Untitled (Erotic subject), 1964
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Richard Graf, Tender Flames of My House on Fire, 1964
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth, Self-Portrait, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth, The Reaper, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
William Unger, Hugo Graf Abensperg-Traun, 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Cossmann, Bookplate of Arthur Graf, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth, Heimkehr (Return Home), 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Kriehuber, Portrait of Joseph Matthias Graf Thun (1794-1868), 1842
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth, Faldarbeitering (Field Worker), 19th - 20th century
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Richard Graf, Solitude, O Heart of Man/Solitude and Shadows at the high noon of man, 20th century
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Wenceslas Hollar, Der Graf (The Nobleman), pl. 11 from the set Der Totentanz nach Holbein, (The Dance of Death, after Holbein), 1651
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Leopold Graf Von Kalckreuth, Ninnenei und Muhme (Ninnenei and Auntie), 19th - 20th century
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Louis-Francios-Sebastian Fauvel, Le Comte de Daun(Leopold Joseph , Graf von Daun, 1705-1766), ca. 1760
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Dancing Peasant Couple
Museum of Fine Arts -
Funerary portrait of a woman Egyptian Roman Period about A.D. 100 Paint on wood Height
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Ray George, Box I, 1974
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Ray George, May 1974, 1974
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Ben Berns, Landscape, 1974
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Misch Kohn, General, 1970

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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J. Paul Getty Center: German and Swiss Drawings from the Permanent Collection
The exhibition will explore the range of German and Swiss draftsmanship of the 16th and 17th centuries through figure and compositional studies, designs for prints and decorative objects, and port...
National Galery of Art: From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin
The exhibition is made possible by UBS AG. The Gallery has long been devoted to collecting and exhibiting early German and Swiss art, and this rich and varied showing o...
O.K. Center of Contemporary Art: Open House: Art and the Public Sphere tToday
Urban spaces that were formerly defined as public and used that way, have gradually been transformed into a Cinecittà of modernist and postmodern architecture, the motor of which is driven by the interests of big business and spectacle. Parallel t...
National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Artists bring dress and drapery to life, showing us how to see and feel it. In responding to contemporary fashion, they present to each age a compelling image of how clothes should be worn. The exhibition opens with a striking series of paired pai...
Cairns Regional Gallery: Cairns Art Societies 55th Annual Open Art Awards
We promote the Open Art Awards nationally through The Australian Artist magazine and subsequently we have received entries from as far afield as the Margaret River region in Western Australia and Adelaide, Ms Donne said. The Cairns Art Socie...

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Urs Graf (Getty Museum)
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Urs Graf (1485 - 1527) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Urs Graf -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Urs Graf - Filmografie
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