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Nationality/school
Swiss, German
Born
Zürich (city) 1539-06/1539-06-13
baptized 13 June 1539 in the Großmünster (Saur 1992)
Deceased
Nuremberg 1591-03/1591-03-17
buried 17 March 1591 (Saur 1992)
Family relationships
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Son of the third marriage of Johann Jakob, choirmaster and professor of rhetoric, logic and ancient languages (married 24 November 1574) and Barbara (born 1 June 1586), widow of the goldsmith Wilhelm Wilcke: they had two sons and two daughters
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  • Zürich (stad) 1554 - 1577
    c. 1554; although he had been working in Nuremberg from 1561, Ammann retained his civil rights from the city of Zurich until 1577: In 1575 he sold his house in Zurich, 1577 laid off his Zurich citizenship (Saur 1992)
  • Schaffhausen (plaats) 1559
    In 1559 he probably came to Schaffhausen, as a drawing of the Bruderhaus and the chapel in Stein near Schaffhausen (Würzburg, UB) seems to indicate.
  • Basel (Zwitserland) 1559 - 1560
    apprentice of glass painter Ludwig Ringler (ca. 1535-1605)
  • Neurenberg 1561 - 1591
    apprentice in the studio of Virgilius Solis (I), which he also succeeded after his death in 1562; on 14 June 1577 the Nuremberg council granted him citizenship; the entry in the Bürgerbuch took place on 20 June 1577
  • Frankfurt am Main (stad) 1583
  • Heidelberg 1583
  • Würzburg 1585 - 1587
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Subjects
This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.
allegory, animal painting (genre), figure study (main subject), figure, genre, hunting scene, history (genre), landscape (genre), military genre, mythology, ornaments, portrait, Christian religious scene, topography, battle
Creation date: 1991-11-20; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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