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visited Italy about 1507. He aimed at strong characterization rather than ideal form, and ranked among the best masters of his time. Works: Basilica Pictures (1501, 1502, 1504), Christ and Mary (1507), Crucifixion (1519), Battle at Cannæ (1529), all in Augsburg Gallery; Ursula Altar (before 1505), Dresden Gallery; Saints (1505), Madonna (1510), both in Maurice Chapel, Nuremberg; Madonna (1509), Museum, ib.; Pietà, Carlsruhe Gallery; Holy Family (1511), St. Ulric, St. Barbara, Berlin Museum; John Evangelist (after 1520), do., and St. John Baptist (1518), Duke William IV. of Bavaria (1526), and Wife, Esther before Ahasuerus (1528), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Portrait of himself and Wife (1526), Vienna Museum.—Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 576; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Dohme, 1i.; Nagler, Mon., iii. 237; Kugler (Crowe), i. 195; Lübke, Geschichte der Renaissance in Deutschland, i. 55; Woltmann (Bennett), Holbein and his Time, 87; W. & W., ii. 446; iii. 237.

BURCKMAIR, HANS, the younger, flourished in Augsburg until 1559. German school; son and pupil of Hans the elder. Many of the pictures and wood-cuts ascribed to his father, bearing a later date than 1531, may be works of his hand.—W. & W., ii. 450.

BURCKMAIR (Burgkmair), THOMAN, born about the middle of 15th century, died in Augsburg, 1523. German school. The founder of a family of painters that flourished through several generations. According to his own statement in the Augsburg record of painters, he became an apprentice in 1460. Figures short, flesh tones of a heavy brown, and outlines hard. Works: Christ conversing with St. Ulric, Virgin with St. Elizabeth (1480), Cathedral, Augsburg; Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St. Lawrence, and Scenes from the Passion, Augsburg Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 144; Schnaase, viii. 455; W. & W., ii. 116.

BURG, ADRIAAN VAN DER, born at Dordrecht about 1697, died in 1737. Dutch school; portrait painter; pupil of Arnold Houbraken, whom he accompanied to Amsterdam. Works: Portraits of the seventeen directors of the mint, Dordrecht.

BURGER, ANTON, born in Frankfort in 1825. Landscape and genre painter; pupil at the Städel Institute under Jakob Becker and Jakob Dielmann; then for two years in Munich, and in 1856 in Düsseldorf; visited Paris, the Netherlands, and Italy. Since 1857 settled at Cronberg in the Taunus. Great gold medal, Munich, 1869. Works: Old City, Village Street, Farmhouse, Beer Garden, Bowling Alley, Village Kitchen, Two Winter-Hunts (1879).—Müller, 85; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xi. 113.

BURGER, LUDWIG, born in Cracow, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1825, died in Berlin, Oct. 22, 1884. History painter and illustrator; pupil of Berlin Academy, in 1852 of Antwerp Academy, and in Paris under Couture. As illustrator for the Leipsic Illustrirte Zeitung he visited Hungary in 1857, and joined the campaigns in Schleswig in 1864, and in Bohemia in 1866. From 1869 he turned to decorative painting, became member of the Berlin Academy, and visited Italy in 1872-73. Medal in Vienna, 1873; Munich, 1876. Works: Wall and Ceiling Paintings (1870), City Hall, Berlin; Colossal Figures representing Military Virtues (1878), School of Cadets, Lichterfelde, near Berlin.—Illust. Zeitg., 1876, ii. 145; Müller, 86.

BURGESS, JOHN BAGNOLD, born in London in 1830. Genre painter; son of H. W. Burgess, landscape painter to King William IV.; pupil in London of Mr. Leigh, and of the Royal Academy. Draws his subjects largely from Spain and Morocco, which he has visited. Elected an A.R.A. in 1877. Works: Castilian Almsgiving (1859);