Artist: Niklaus Manuel (1484 - 1530)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Renaissance
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Niklaus Manuel Deutsh was the son of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland, Emanuel Alleman. He probably was self taught and created his first paint Saint Eligius in His Workshop in 1515. He specialized in large colorful religious and classical works. Manuel Deutsch served as a French mercenary soldier in Lombardy from 1516 to 1522.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Niklaus Manuel.

-
Deux lansquenets soutenant un écu aux armes de l'artiste (1ère moitié 16e siècle) by MANUEL DEUTSCH Niklaus
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Mocking of Christ
-
Property levy, Niklaus Stoecklin (Switzerland, 1896 - 1982)  (Artist), 1922, Lithograph printed in red, black, green and yellow on wove paper
-
Banquet Scene of Members of the Law Court, Niklaus Wirt (attributed to) (Switzerland, died 1585)  (Artist), 1580, Pot metal; white glass with silver stain, enamel; flashed and abraded glass.
-
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes - Don Manuel Garcia de la Prada c. 1810 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center Spanish
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Daughter of the Dancers
-
Loren R. Barton Manuel drypoint 19th - 20th century
-
PETIT MARCHE (1978) by GOMEZ Manuel
-
The Homeless of..., Manuel Cruz (born 1931)  (Artist), no date, Screenprint
-
Manuel Alegre San Geronimo engraving 1788
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Day Dream
J. Paul Getty Museum -
What a Small World
-
Portrait de Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775 - 1827) (1ère moitié 19e siècle) by anonyme
-
Manuel Salvador Carmona Music and Poetry 18th - 19th century
-
Manuel Salvador Carmona Music and Religion 18th - 19th century
-
Hans Rudolf Manuel Veronese Theater 16th century
-
Manuel Salvador Carmona Music and the Theatre 18th - 19th century
-
Hans Rudolf Manuel Three Travelers in a Landscape 16th century
-
Manuel Valencia Mission Dolores oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Guitar, 1912 Probably made by Santos Hernández, foreman for Manuel RamírezMadrid, SpainWood; Total L. 38
-
Portrait de Mme Manuel, comtesse de Gramedo (3e quart 19e siècle) by WINTERHALTER Franz Xaver (atelier, ?)
-
Hesiquio Iriarte El M.R.P.FR. Manuel Alfaro Color lithograph circa 1880
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color) on cream paper 1896
-
Manuel Robbe La Visiteuse Aquatint 19th century
-
Le groupe de la Conférence Internationale des Chemins de Fer devant la porte Saint-Denis, hiver 1922 (1922) by MANUEL Henri
-
Homme debout, tourné vers la droite, cheveux ébouriffés, tenant une bourse (16e siècle) by MANUEL DEUTSCH Hans Rudolph
-
Jose Manuel Lanus Projecto Para Decoracion Color lithograph 20th century
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Austin de Croze Untitled, in the book Calendrier magique by Manuel Orazi (Paris: L'Art Nouveau, 1896) lithograph (color; gold paint) on cream paper 1896
-
Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), Manuel de Arellano (Mexico, 1691 - 1722)  (Artist), 1691, Oil on canvas
-
Manuel Lopez Lopez B. Francisco De Geronimo. Engraving 1810
-
Manuel, Loren Roberta Barton (United States, Massachusetts, Oxford, 1893 - 1975) , 1923, Drypoint

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Manuel

Open Studio: Manuel Castro Cobos: The Importance of His Life / La importacia de su vida
These images, printed/drawn directly onto a sheet representing a specific day of a month, exist as metaphors for life and death, the beginning and the end, and linear time. Manuel Castro Cobos resides in Córdoba, Spain, where he is Associa...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Men of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Edward Weston, Fritz Henle, and Gerardo Suter
Collectively displaying photographs by these artists demonstrates many parallels in their lives and work. During his stay in Mexico, e.g., Edward Weston began a new direction while maturing as an artist, and through the suggestion of Tina Modotti...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
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...
Seoul Arts Center: Paintings by Manuel Millares
. Tormented in his investigations and serene in his manner of tackling the most disconcerting dimensions of time and space, the painter, whose career reaches back to the main Spanish art movements since the nineteen-fifties, has employed a series ...
Focal Point Gallery: Persistence of Vision: Manuel Acevedo, Semonara Chowdhury, Richard Flint, Graham Gussin
This exhibition brings together artists whose work explores the relationship between moving image and text, both through the physical means by which an image is passed from our eye to our brain and also through the relationship of text to narrativ...
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity. ...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...
Bates College Museum of Art: Manuel Lopez Oliva: Cuba and the Theatre of Desire
"Aside from being actors who take on different characters, sometimes merely for effect, sometimes out of desire -- the desire for self-expression, for power, for love, for truth -- we are also actors in the circumstances of history," he said. ...
Centre of Attention: A Man, A Woman, A Machine: Group Photography Exhibition as Part of Photomonth
100 years after the triumph of photography, the Centre of Attention presents A Man, A Woman, A Machine. This is an exhibition with a twist: an acerbic, witty take on the age-old story of the impact of a beautiful woman on a man. While its...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Experiment Experiencia: Eighteen Contemporary Brazilian Artists
Taking as its starting point the early experiments of the Brazilian avant-garde led by Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Pape, Experiment Experiência reveals how artists sought radical alternatives to the confines of the picture plane.  Risin...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Stretch: Works by Artists from North and South America
Comments co-curators Keith Wallace and Eugenio Valdes Figueroa, "Bringing together artwork from different nations within the Americas serves to provide a perspective on the works' similarities and differences. In spite of the virtual demise of n...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Tapies: Curated by Manuel Borja-Villel
If there is a single, key element in Antoni Tàpies’ contribution to 20th century aesthetics, it is unquestionably the unique way he treated materials, his constant search for the material nature of artworks. Tàpies developed this aspect through wh...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Beau Geste : Abstract Paintings in Torroella di Montgri
Eschewing at first glance obvious pictorial references, these works celebrate the vital gesture that is the basis of all painting, inviting the viewer to participate in a dialogue with each work, sharing at the same time in the mystery of the crea...
Artempresa Gallery: Paintings by Alejandro Taleisnik
His work tends to conjugate subtle geometry and expressive free strokes, where color is used in a defined and sensitive way. "Talo" is in permanent quest and research of new expressive languages for his esthetic expression, in course of reflexive...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Women of Mexico: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo, Marianna Yampolsky, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduno and Marcela Taboada
The opportunity to see the work of these artists displayed side by side in a group show demonstrates the many parallels in their work. The influence of the Mexican master Manuel Alvarez Bravo is evident with each of the five photographers. Lola ...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
Galleria Pino Pascali: 2001 Art Expo Opens Today
The show involves the entire city of Polignano a Mare (Bari) from 3 to 19 August 2001, ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL TO FILL THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR
The applications submitted will be analyzed at a first stage of assessment of merits by a committee of experts formed by: -Lynne Cook, member of the MACBA advisory committee
-Maria de Corral, member of the MACBA advisory committee
...
Pan American Art Gallery: Vaudou/Voodoo: Spirit in Art
Included in this montage of work are alters, cut metal, bronze, wood and cement sculptures, paintings and sacred flags. Over 60 works from over 30 artists will be on display from the likes of Wifredo Lam, Rene Portocarrero, Manuel Mendive and Zaid...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: The City That Never Was: Fantastic Architectures in Western Art
The exhibition brings together in the region of 80 works of art on a variety of supports, including frescoes, painting, photography and installations. It turns around the genre of the architectural capriccio, from the 16th to the 18th century, wit...
Helsinki City Art Museum's Tennis Palace galleries: Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was fond of telling stories and some of them have become legends about his own life. However, it is known that in his youth Rivera was a member of the circle of artists in Montparnasse in Paris, together with Picasso and other...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: image a new - Re:locations - FLESH and FLUID: Three Spring Thesis Exhibitions
image a new, curated by Carina Plath, reconsiders the situation of the image in the arts today. The emergence of digital technology has reopened a discussion of the image as a medium of representation. The artists in the exhibition—Ola Bill...
Foothills Art Center: Call to Artists: 2004 North American Sculpture Exhibition
This year’s juror is James Surls, internationally renowned for his large-scale sculptures constructed of wood and steel. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Wh...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: The First Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., The Lo...
photo l.a. 2000: 9th LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT EXPOSITION
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph. Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...
Gabarron Foundation - Carriage House Center for the Arts: I Have a Dream: An Homage to Martin Luther King Jr.
Apart from Theodore W. Kheel, big thinkers and writers participate in this homage: Maya Angelou, Zygmunt Bauman, Owen H. Brooks, Xavier Bru de Sala, Peter N. Carrol, Ernesto Castro, Josep Cuní, David Cortright, Joan Duran, Mohamed ElBaradei, Valen...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: A Stellar Moment for Galician Culture by Antonio Bonet Correa
(…) The same as in different Spanish regions, especially those located in peripheral areas but with their own cultural system, Galicia started a collective and operational process whereby the country had to be rescued f...
John Natsoulas Gallery: Pat Mahony and Frank Damian: June 2005 Landscape Art Exhibition
No longer considered to be a mid-career artist, Pat Mahony is now an established and well-known painter. Twenty-five years ago her architectural buildings and storefronts gave her international acclaim. For the last fifteen years she has been pr...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: photo san francisco 2001 Opens Tomorrow
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Complejo Cultural La Rinconada,: The Politics of Barro / IV Barro de America Biennale
Venezuelan as well as Brazilian artists will present their projects that articulate themes such as violence, territorial prejudices, discrimination, male chauvinism, political divisions, and expressions from the urban world and the artificial natu...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century
World Without End brings together some 200 works of acclaimed ...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution
Certain photographs transcend the circumstances of their making. They become emblematic of an era, of a generation, or of a geographic place. Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph Migrant Mother has attained mythic status and be...
City Gallery: VIVA LA VIDA - Frida KAHLO, Diego RIVERA and MEXICAN MODERNISM
Frida and Diego on their wedding day… demonstrating together… meeting art patrons in America… relaxing at home with their pets… embracing tenderly at the kitchen table….The 80 photographs in Frida y Diego, Amores y Desamores (‘Love and Disaffecti...
photo l.a. 2003, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Inc.: 12th annual Los Angeles International Photographic Print Exposition Opens
BENEFIT RECEPTION - January 16th, 6-9pm The opening night preview reception will benefit the Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has one of the major collections of photogr...
Parrish Art Museum: Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
Iturbide's work was influenced by two of the best-known earlier photographers of Mexico: Tina Modotti, recognized as one of the first socially concerned photographers, and Modotti's friend Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who began to photogr...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...

Further Artwork and Information:

Niklaus Manuel Online
MANUEL, Niklaus
Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (Getty Museum)
Niklaus Manuel (1484 - 1530) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Niklaus Manuel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Totentanz von Niklaus Manuel
Niklaus Manuel / MediaTime Services
UNIPRESS 100 - ut pictura poesis
Antonia Giordano, Niklaus Manuel Deutsch
Schulverleih - Lebensbilder : Niklaus Manuel - Maler Dichter Staatsmann

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: