Commanders, soldiers, patrons, writers, and image makers connected with Landsknecht history, chiefly c. 1480–1600.
A growing, source-linked register, not a complete census. Dates attached to books and artworks are dates of those sources; the events they describe may be earlier. Unknown and disputed life dates remain qualified.
71 of 71 entries · alphabetical by surname or principal name
Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer Rudolf Füssli the Younger · 1755–1757 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-3214 Image source · Name source · Rights
Scholarly catalogue wording and dating, not a new transcription of the original print.
Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer, 1755–1757. Etching. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-3214.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-3214
The institutional title identifies Albrecht Altdorfer; this is a later, posthumous likeness.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Portrait of Christoph Amberger Philipp Kilian, after Jakob von Sandrart · 1768–1775 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-9 Image source · Name source · Rights
English: Florian Leschenbrandt, a named soldier figure
Scholarly catalogue wording and dating, not a new transcription of the original print.
Portrait of Christoph Amberger, 1768–1775. Engraving and book illustration. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-9.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-9
The title on the object reads Christope Ambergerus Augustanus, and the catalogue identifies the sitter as Christoph Amberger; this is a posthumous book print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Prolific illustrator whose woodcuts accompanied military manuals, including Fronsperger’s works. His representations of offices, justice, and camp life are frequently used in Landsknecht research.
Dated texts & artworks
1573Period text
Illustrations in Fronsperger’s Kriegsbuch; the NDB identifies Amman’s contribution to the printed work.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Selbstbildnis: Jost Amman, Second half of the 16th century. Etching mounted on an album folio. ALBERTINA, Vienna, D/I/30/1; object 384639; media 267584.
Image: ALBERTINA, Vienna
The Albertina catalogues the work as Selbstbildnis: Jost Amman and attributes it to Jost Amman. The etching mounted on the folio is explicitly captioned IOBST AMAN. The catalogue dates it only to the second half of the sixteenth century.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public domain (Gemeinfrei). The Albertina-delivered full JPEG is reproduced as a complete folio without editorial crop, retouching, or tonal adjustment.
Alfonso Daualos, Marggrave von Guasto (named portrait page) Michael Beuther; printed by Peter Perna · 1582 Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 303, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113 Image source · Name source · Rights
Imperial infantry commander at Pavia and later governor of Milan. His biography explicitly describes Landsknechte in the vanguard he commanded in 1525.
The quoted troop figure is the biography’s statement, not an independently reconciled strength estimate. He is not the Marquis of Pescara who died in 1525.
Dated texts & artworks
1962Scholarly biography
Signed scholarly biography with primary-source references.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Alfonso Daualos, Marggrave von Guasto (named portrait page), 1582. Woodcut portrait with letterpress biography on the same book page. Universitätsbibliothek Basel via e-rara, UBH EW I 9:2, printed page 303; e-rara image 2665692.
Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 303, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113
The printed heading Alfonso Daualos, Marggrave von Guasto appears immediately above the portrait and biography on page 303; this is a posthumous named book print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. The complete named book page is reproduced unchanged from the repository webcache; no crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Bust portrait of Ferdinando Francesco de Avalos, marquis of Pescara, in an oval ornamented frame Nicolò Nelli · 1568 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.136.287; Open Access, CC0 Image source · Name source · Rights
Imperial commander whose Spanish infantry fought alongside Landsknechte in the Italian Wars. He played a central part in the victory at Pavia and in the army’s subsequent political negotiations.
Distinguish him from his cousin Alfonso, Marquis of Vasto, and from the later Francesco Ferdinando d’Avalos.
Dated texts & artworks
1962Scholarly biography
Signed scholarly biography with primary-source references.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Bust portrait of Ferdinando Francesco de Avalos, marquis of Pescara, in an oval ornamented frame, 1568. Engraving. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.136.287.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.136.287; Open Access, CC0
The Met's object title names Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara, as the sitter. This is a posthumous print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Open Access CC0 1.0. The Met web-large JPEG is served unchanged; no crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Bust portrait of Barthel Beham (1502–1540) Mathias van Somer · c. 1650 LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick, C-509330 PAD Image source · Name source · Rights
Painter and engraver who represented individual Landsknechte, including seated and rear-view soldiers. Distinguish him from his brother Sebald when using older catalogue attributions and life dates.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1520Period artwork
Seated Landsknecht; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Bust portrait of Barthel Beham (1502–1540), c. 1650. Engraving. LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, C-509330 PAD.
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick, C-509330 PAD
The LWL object title names Barthel Beham, and the print inscription reads BARTHOLOMEUS BAHAM, identifying the sitter. This is posthumous.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the museum image service at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Medallions with portraits of Sebald Beham and Anna Beham Wenceslaus Hollar · 1647 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18.17.2-263; Open Access, CC0 Image source · Name source · Rights
Printmaker whose etched, engraved, and woodcut soldier figures preserve a varied visual record of Landsknecht appearance and social types. He also designed named soldier broadsheets.
Dated texts & artworks
1520Period artwork
Landsknecht; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Medallions with portraits of Sebald Beham and Anna Beham, 1647. Etching; first state of three. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18.17.2-263.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18.17.2-263; Open Access, CC0
The Met title and description identify Sebald Beham as the sitter in the left medallion and Anna Beham in the right. This is a posthumous print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Open Access CC0 1.0. The Met web-large JPEG is served unchanged; no crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Portrait of Götz von Berlichingen anonymous, possibly after a design by Hugo Bürkner · 1854 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-4526 Image source · Name source · Rights
Imperial knight and autobiographical witness to early sixteenth-century warfare. His career includes the Swabian War, the Landshut succession conflict, and a brief command among the insurgents in 1525.
Included as a military contemporary and witness; his knightly status does not make him an ordinary Landsknecht. The later literary character must be distinguished from the historical man.
Dated texts & artworks
1955Scholarly biography
Signed biography with references to earlier records.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Portrait of Götz von Berlichingen, 1854. Wood engraving with letterpress on recto and verso. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-4526.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-4526
The catalogue identifies Götz von Berlichingen and records this named portrait as a page from Ludwig Bechstein's Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Scholarly catalogue wording and dating, not a new transcription of the original print.
Portrait of Jakob Binck, 1610. Etching and engraving. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-H-H-1154.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-H-H-1154
The catalogue identifies Jakob Binck and notes that his name and four Latin lines appear below the portrait in a book series of artists' portraits.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (posthumous portrait) Dominicus Custos · 1602 Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, B+ 3; e-rara, doi:10.3931/e-rara-79794 Image source · Name source · Rights
Former constable of France who entered imperial service and joined Frundsberg’s army in 1527. He was killed during the assault on Rome that preceded the sack.
Dated texts & artworks
1602Posthumous portrait
Named portrait in part IV of Custos’s Atrium heroicum. This is the publication year, not a life event.
Source wording:esercito di lanzi guidato da Georg Frundsberg
English: army of Landsknechte led by Georg Frundsberg
The cited scholarly record supplies this identification; a catalogue title is not an original inscription.
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (posthumous portrait), 1602. Engraving and letterpress. Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, via e-rara, B+ 3; part IV; image 22431751.
Landsknecht captain at Pavia and later imperial colonel. With Reinhard von Solms he worked on a military ordinance in 1544–1545; his career continued through Saint-Quentin in 1557.
Dated texts & artworks
1955Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
This institutional portrait record specifically names the sitter. It remains link-only because an item-level open reuse statement for the exact digital image was not established.
Margrave and military entrepreneur whose service in the 1540s was followed by the destructive Second Margrave War. His armies connect Landsknecht recruitment with the conflicts among imperial princes.
Dated texts & artworks
1953Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Albrecht Alcibiades, c. 1630–in or after 1670. Engraving. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1911-4797.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1911-4797
The institutional title and subject record identify Albrecht Alcibiades; this is a posthumous print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Augsburg painter, woodcut designer, and chronicler. His drawings of Maximilian’s wars and his chronicle place military imagery beside an urban witness’s account of the period.
Distinguish him from Jörg Breu the Younger. Attributions of individual soldier sheets to father or son need separate review.
Dated texts & artworks
1512–1537Period text
Chronicle covering these years, described in the NDB; this is its coverage range, not a modern edition date.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
The signed biography lists portrait references in its Porträts section. Those references do not establish the reuse rights of a particular digital image; no image from that list has been approved here.
Hans Burgkmair with his wife Georg Christoph Kilian, after the 1529 double portrait · 1766 LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick, C-502353 PAD Image source · Name source · Rights
Augsburg painter and print designer involved in Maximilian’s Triumph and Landsknecht broadsheets. Several designs reached readers in much later printings, which must be dated separately.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1520–1530; printed 1575–1590Period artwork
Augustin Wagenhals; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Hans Burgkmair with his wife, 1766. Engraving. LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, C-502353 PAD.
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick, C-502353 PAD
The LWL title and the print's text identify Hans Burgkmair and his wife. The sheet states that it reproduces their 1529 double portrait; the displayed engraving is a posthumous 1766 work.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the museum image service at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Emperor and king of Spain whose armies employed German infantry throughout the Italian Wars and the Schmalkaldic War. Frundsberg, Schertlin, and other captains served within this shifting imperial military system.
Dated texts & artworks
ca. 1531Period artwork
Joint portrait of Charles V and Ferdinand I, shown in full. The Met catalogue identifies both sitters.
Source wording:Kaiser (Karl I. als König von Spanien)
English: Emperor (Charles I as king of Spain)
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I, ca. 1531. Etching; second state of two (Hollstein). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.26.
Anonymous Gift, 1917
Joint portrait of Charles V and Ferdinand I, shown in full. The Met catalogue identifies both sitters.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: CC0 1.0. Institution-supplied web image downloaded unchanged; no crop or colour alteration.
Prospero Colonna (named portrait page) Michael Beuther; printed by Peter Perna · 1582 Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 217, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113 Image source · Name source · Rights
Italian commander of the imperial army at Bicocca, where German Landsknechte fought alongside other forces. His biography explains the choice of defensive ground and the campaign against Lautrec.
The DBI prefers c. 1460 but reports much earlier estimates. This is the soldier, not one of the cardinals of the same name.
Dated texts & artworks
1982Scholarly biography
Petrucci reconstructs the campaigns and discusses uncertainty about his birth.
The cited scholarly record supplies this identification; a catalogue title is not an original inscription.
Prospero Colonna (named portrait page), 1582. Woodcut portrait with letterpress biography on the same book page. Universitätsbibliothek Basel via e-rara, UBH EW I 9:2, printed page 217; e-rara image 2665606.
Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 217, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113
The printed heading Prospero Colonna appears immediately above the portrait and biography on page 217; this is a posthumous named book print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. The complete named book page is reproduced unchanged from the repository webcache; no crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Portrait of Lucas Cranach at the age of 77 Antonio Pazzi, after a drawing by Giuseppe Menabuoni · 1752–1766 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-109 Image source · Name source · Rights
Painter and printmaker whose early woodcut of a Landsknecht belongs to the visual record of German infantry around 1500. His portraits also preserve important figures of the Reformation and princely courts.
Dated texts & artworks
1505Period artwork
Landsknecht; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
The Rijksmuseum catalogues and names this image as Portrait of Lucas Cranach at the age of 77; the displayed file is the item-level public-domain image.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Lucas Cranach at the age of 77, 1752–1766. Engraving printed on an album leaf. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-109.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2004-72-109
The institutional title identifies Lucas Cranach; the catalogue records the engraving as a book-form artist portrait in the Museum Florentinum series.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Soldier and draughtsman whose annotated sketches record fighting around Älvsborg in 1502. Dihle also identifies him in Saxon building and court accounts.
The precise birth and death dates are not established in the cited study; manuscript claims about numbers and victories require criticism.
Dated texts & artworks
Early sixteenth centuryPeriod text
Annotated campaign drawings concerning Älvsborg, transcribed and discussed by Dihle. Their references to 1502 are event dates, not secure dates of composition.
Painter and printmaker whose soldier studies and designs for Maximilian I are foundational visual sources for early Landsknecht dress and military imagery.
Dated texts & artworks
ca. 1538Period artwork
Posthumous portrait of Dürer by Erhard Schön, dated about 1538 by the museum.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1538. Woodcut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.653.107.
The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975
Posthumous portrait of Dürer by Erhard Schön, dated about 1538 by the museum.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: CC0 1.0. Institution-supplied web image downloaded unchanged; no crop or colour alteration.
Marx Sittich von Ems - Oelgemaelde Painting artist not supplied; photographed by Helmut Klapper · Painting date not supplied; slide photography October 1983 Foto: Helmut Klapper, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Image source · Name source · Rights
Vorarlberg recruiter and commander of German Landsknechte in the Italian Wars. His documented career includes service around Novara, Verona, Pavia, and the campaigns of the 1520s.
The authority index gives 1466; the signed ADB article places his birth around 1470–1480. This entry does not resolve the disagreement.
Dated texts & artworks
1881Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
The Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek catalogue specifically identifies the subject as Marx Sittich von Ems and describes the photographed work as an oil painting.
Source wording:Hauptwerbern und Führern der deutschen Landsknechte
English: principal recruiters and leaders of German Landsknechte
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Marx Sittich von Ems - Oelgemaelde, Painting date not supplied; slide photography October 1983. Colour slide photograph of an oil painting. Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, volare, o:63113; VLB2392272.
Foto: Helmut Klapper, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek
The institutional title names Marx Sittich von Ems and identifies the depicted work as an oil painting. The painting itself bears an identifying inscription beginning MARX SITTICH VON EMBS. The catalogue does not identify the painter or date the painting; 1983 is the date of Helmut Klapper's slide photography.
Work: Painting rights not stated; historical painting. Digital image: CC BY 4.0. The institution-delivered large JPEG is reproduced without editorial crop, retouching, or tonal adjustment.
Habsburg ruler of the Austrian lands and, later, emperor. The Ottoman wars and the defence of his central European territories formed an important setting for German infantry recruitment and military writing.
Dated texts & artworks
16th centuryPeriod artwork
The museum identifies the sitter as Ferdinand I; its catalogue dates this impression only to the sixteenth century.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Emperor Ferdinand I, 16th century. Engraving; first of three states. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 18.65.2.
Rogers Fund, 1918
The museum identifies the sitter as Ferdinand I; its catalogue dates this impression only to the sixteenth century.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: CC0 1.0. Institution-supplied web image downloaded unchanged; no crop or colour alteration.
Nuremberg artist and designer associated with images of military offices, later copied in soldier-print series. His designs help trace how representations circulated between workshops.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1520–1530Period artwork
Supreme field captain; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
This institutional portrait record specifically names the sitter. It remains link-only because an item-level open reuse statement for the exact digital image was not established.
Portrait of Odet de Foix anonymous; published by the widow of Jacques Kerver and Guillaume Chaudière · 1584 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-5004 Image source · Name source · Rights
French marshal who commanded the army defeated at Bicocca and later besieged Naples. His campaigns brought him into opposition to imperial commanders and their German infantry.
This is Odet, not his brother Thomas, born in 1485. The cited article establishes the death year, not an exact day.
Dated texts & artworks
2023Scholarly study
The study of his brother André includes an account of Odet’s career and its sources.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Portrait of Odet de Foix, 1584. Engraving with letterpress on recto and verso. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-5004.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-2019-5004
The catalogue names Odet de Foix and identifies the sheet as a page from André Thevet's Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres; it is posthumous.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Francis I of France (posthumous portrait) Dominicus Custos · 1602 Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, B+ 3; e-rara, doi:10.3931/e-rara-79794 Image source · Name source · Rights
French king and principal opponent of Charles V in the Italian Wars. German mercenaries served on both sides; his capture at Pavia is a recurring event in the careers of Landsknecht commanders.
Dated texts & artworks
1602Posthumous portrait
Named portrait in part IV of Custos’s Atrium heroicum. This is the publication year, not a life event.
Former Landsknecht, military judicial officer, and author of influential books on organization, law, arms, and camp life. His illustrated manuals are major sources for sixteenth-century German military culture.
His birth and early life are uncertain. The publication year 1573 of the Kriegsbuch is not his death year.
Dated texts & artworks
1555; 1573Period text
Fünf Bücher von Kriegsregiment und Ordnung (1555) and the three-volume Kriegsbuch (1573), identified in the NDB work list.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Leonhardt Fronsperger, 1573. Woodcut printed from two blocks, with letterpress on verso. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-21.436.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-21.436
The catalogue title names Leonhardt Fronsperger; the Rijksmuseum further identifies the sheet as a woodcut used in editions of his Kriegsbuch.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Georg von Frundsberg (posthumous portrait) Tobias Stimmer · 1590 LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Porträtarchiv Diepenbroick, C-568965 PAD Image source · Name source · Rights
Landsknecht commander closely associated with the imperial victories at Bicocca and Pavia. His troops’ march into Italy ended for him in illness during the mutiny of 1527, before the sack of Rome.
The NDB qualifies the birth date. His supposed words to Luther at Worms are not established by contemporary testimony.
Dated texts & artworks
1590Posthumous portrait
Stimmer woodcut naming Frundsberg; the Portraitindex supplies the print date.
Source wording:Kaspar von F., ältester Sohn des Vorigen
Normalized reading: Kaspar von Frundsberg, ältester Sohn des Vorigen
English: Kaspar von Frundsberg, eldest son of the preceding man
The closing account identifies Georg’s son, gives the older birth year 1500, and describes his commands. The newer NDB genealogy gives 1501; that disagreement is retained.
Military entrepreneur whose German infantry served successive employers, including the emperor and the French king. He commanded in the Württemberg campaign of 1534 and later in French service.
This is the count and landgrave in the Baar, who died at Ortenberg, not the similarly named Livonian master. The old biography’s moral judgments are not adopted.
Dated texts & artworks
1878Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
The museum catalogues this c. 1530 woodcut under the named figure, but the museum's image terms require advance permission for republication; the object record is linked and the image is not copied here.
Swiss goldsmith, draughtsman, and mercenary whose military drawings are important comparative evidence for Landsknecht and Reisläufer imagery. His own service was Swiss and must not be automatically relabelled German.
The Städel dates his death c. 1527–1528; other museum catalogues give later approximations. The date remains uncertain.
Dated texts & artworks
1519Period artwork
Returning Landsknecht; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Nuremberg publisher of soldier broadsheets designed by Beham, Flötner, Schön, and Stör. His role as publisher must be distinguished from the artists’ work and from the named speakers in the prints.
Dated texts & artworks
1966Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
The institutional portrait record specifically names Heyne auf der kyrchgassen; its digital image remains link-only pending item-level reuse clearance.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
The museum catalogues this c. 1530 woodcut under the named figure, but the museum's image terms require advance permission for republication; the object record is linked and the image is not copied here.
Counsellor and military commander of Maximilian I, active in the Swiss War, the Landshut succession conflict, and Guelders. Included for the early Habsburg command network in which Landsknecht forces developed.
Dated texts & artworks
1959Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
The institutional portrait record specifically names Eitel Friedrich II of Hohenzollern; its digital image remains link-only pending item-level reuse clearance.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
This institutional portrait record specifically names the sitter. It remains link-only because an item-level open reuse statement for the exact digital image was not established.
North German colonel and military contractor who supplied troops to changing employers. His career links English service at Boulogne with imperial, princely, and French campaigns.
The signed NDB article gives 1514; the authority heading also records 1513. He is not the nineteenth-century botanist Georg von Holle.
Dated texts & artworks
1972Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
The signed biography lists portrait references in its Porträts section. Those references do not establish the reuse rights of a particular digital image; no image from that list has been approved here.
Augsburg etcher and armour decorator whose prints include groups of Landsknechte and Swiss mercenaries. Their original design dates must be distinguished from later reprints.
This is the artist, not the later Augsburg weapons merchant of the same name.
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c. 1526–1536Period artwork
Five Landsknechte; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Painter and draughtsman whose drawings include Landsknechte drawing swords and small groups of soldiers. These images provide evidence of artistic representation, not proof of the artist’s own military service.
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1512Period artwork
Landsknecht drawing a sword; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Ulrich von Hutten attributed to Robert Boissard, after Erhard Schön and possibly Jean Jacques Boissard · c. 1597–1599 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-31.464 Image source · Name source · Rights
Humanist, polemicist, and associate of Franz von Sickingen who also entered imperial military service in Italy. His writings connect the experience of war with political and religious controversy.
This is the humanist, not the older Fulda councillor of the same name or a later author using his name as a pseudonym.
Dated texts & artworks
1974Scholarly biography
Signed biography with references to earlier records.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Portrait of Ulrich von Hutten, c. 1597–1599. Engraving and book illustration. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-31.464.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-31.464
The object title Huldrichus Huttenus and the catalogue identify Ulrich von Hutten; the print was made for Jean Jacques Boissard's Icones and is posthumous.
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Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Former Landsknecht and author whose Wendunmuth and Militaris Disciplina contain recollections of military life. He served in Germany and France before turning to civic employment and writing.
His humorous and didactic tales must be read as literary works, not as a transparent record of every incident.
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1563; 1602Period text
Wendunmuth: initial publication in 1563 and subsequent parts in 1602, as distinguished in the NDB work list.
Nuremberg painter and draughtsman associated with Dürer’s circle. A Landsknecht drawing assigned to him bears a false Dürer monogram, making it a useful warning about attribution.
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c. 1507–1510Period artwork
Landsknecht drawing with a false Dürer monogram; attribution and dating follow Seggern.
English: Landsknecht drawing with a false Dürer monogram
Scholarly catalogue wording and dating, not a new transcription of the original print.
Portrait of Hans Suess von Kulmbach, 1643–1672. Etching and engraving. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1365.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1365
The institutional title identifies Hans Suess von Kulmbach, and the printed portrait itself names him; this is posthumous.
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Habsburg commander and viceroy of Naples involved in the victory at Pavia and the custody of Francis I. His dealings with unpaid Landsknechte also appear in accounts of the imperial army after the sack of Rome.
Wauters gives either 1487 or 1488 for his birth. The article’s detailed battle narrative is an older interpretation, not an independently reconciled account.
Dated texts & artworks
1890–1891Scholarly biography
Wauters’s signed biography cites chroniclers and academy research.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
The cited scholarly record supplies this identification; a catalogue title is not an original inscription.
The Met identifies a portrait medallion of Anna von Frundsberg, born Countess of Lodron (c. 1530). It is a three-dimensional object, so it is linked rather than presented as the requested painted or printed portrait.
Reformer whose writings discussed war, soldiering, and political obedience. He also figures in the later Frundsberg tradition, especially the much-repeated but unconfirmed story of their encounter at Worms.
The famous Frundsberg–Luther dialogue is not established by contemporary evidence.
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1520Period artwork
Luther portrayed as an Augustinian monk in 1520; not an image of his disputed encounter with Frundsberg.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Bernese artist, writer, and mercenary whose soldier drawings illuminate Swiss and German military imagery. Included as a comparative witness and image maker, not as proof of German Landsknecht identity.
The museum biographies disagree about the sides on which he served. This entry does not resolve that conflict.
Dated texts & artworks
Undated museum biographyScholarly biography
The museum biography discusses his campaigning in these years; this is an activity range, not the date of an undated museum text.
The cited scholarly record supplies this identification; a catalogue title is not an original inscription.
Portrait of Niklaus Manuel, 1755–1757. Etching and book illustration. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1014.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1014
The catalogue names Niklaus Manuel and records this print as an illustration for Johann Kaspar Füssli's Geschichte Und Abbildung der besten Mahler in der Schweitz.
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Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I Hans Weiditz the Younger · 1519 The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975 Image source · Name source · Rights
Habsburg ruler whose recruitment and military reforms helped establish Landsknecht infantry. His wars and lavish printed commemorations are central to both their early history and their visual representation.
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1519Period artwork
A posthumous woodcut after Dürer. The Met identifies the sitter as Maximilian I.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, 1519. Woodcut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.653.108.
The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975
A posthumous woodcut after Dürer. The Met identifies the sitter as Maximilian I.
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Iohann Medices (named portrait page) Michael Beuther; printed by Peter Perna · 1582 Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 245, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113 Image source · Name source · Rights
Italian commander who attempted to impede Frundsberg’s advancing army in November 1526. He was mortally wounded during that campaign; the later legend of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere needs to be separated from his documented career.
His Italian Bande Nere must not be confused with German formations also called Black Bands. Arfaioli traces changes in his posthumous reputation.
Dated texts & artworks
2009Scholarly biography
Signed scholarly biography with primary-source references.
The cited article and locator were opened. This short excerpt identifies the match; the surrounding article supports the biographical statement.
Iohann Medices (named portrait page), 1582. Woodcut portrait with letterpress biography on the same book page. Universitätsbibliothek Basel via e-rara, UBH EW I 9:2, printed page 245; e-rara image 2665634.
Michael Beuther, Bildnisse (Basel: Peter Perna, 1582), Universitätsbibliothek Basel, UBH EW I 9:2, p. 245, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-9113
The printed heading Iohann Medices appears immediately above the portrait and biography on page 245; this is a posthumous named book print.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. The complete named book page is reproduced unchanged from the repository webcache; no crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Nuremberg printer and publisher associated with Landsknecht broadsheets and the great view of the siege of Vienna. His publications combined artists’ designs with explanatory and topical verse.
Dated texts & artworks
1885Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
North German military contractor associated with Georg von Holle and Christoph von Wrisberg. His infantry commands connected the wars of Brunswick, the Schmalkaldic conflict, and later international service.
This is the elder Hilmar, not his son of the same name or the later literary Baron Münchhausen.
Dated texts & artworks
1886Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Block cutter and printer working in Augsburg, including on the woodcut projects of Maximilian I. His workshop is important for understanding the production and reuse of military imagery.
Dated texts & artworks
1999Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Secretary to Georg von Frundsberg during the expedition of 1526–1528 and author of the Historia of Georg and Kaspar von Frundsberg. His account combines proximity to events with the later commemoration of his patrons.
Life dates vary in older scholarship. The approximate dates of the later Bosl record are retained.
Dated texts & artworks
1889Scholarly biography
Bertheau discusses Reissner’s service and the Frundsberg history.
Nuremberg shoemaker, poet, and Meistersinger whose verses and dialogues engaged with soldiers, war, and contemporary politics. Printed texts accompanying Landsknecht images belong to this wider literary culture.
Dated texts & artworks
2005Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Meldemann’s biography identifies Hans Sachs’s verses in the context of his published woodcuts.
Portrait of Hans Sachs, 1715–1761. Engraving. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1912-2811.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1912-2811
The institutional title identifies Hans Sachs, and the sheet carries a Latin identification beneath the portrait; it is posthumous.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Experienced Habsburg field commander remembered for the defence of Vienna in 1529. His career connects Maximilian’s earlier wars with the German infantry employed against the Ottoman advance.
Dated texts & artworks
1890Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Hans Schäufelein Christoph Friedrich Theodosius von Schad, after a painting by Johannes Müller · 1794–1799 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1254 Image source · Name source · Rights
Painter and woodcut designer of individual soldiers, infantry groups, and military scenes. His work is regularly used to study Landsknecht clothing and weapons.
The modern NDB explicitly rejects the older catalogue name “Hans Leonhard Schäufelein”; that older form is not used as his verified name.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1510Period artwork
Landsknecht; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Hans Schäufelein, 1794–1799. Etching. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1254.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1907-1254
The institutional title identifies Hans Schäufelein and the catalogue says the print was made after a named painting; this is a later likeness.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Commander in Habsburg service, active in the Italian Wars and later campaigns. His career and the mixture of troops he commanded warn against treating every older use of “Landsknechte” as a precise nationality label.
The ADB describes some of his men as predominantly Swiss while calling them Landsknechte; that terminology is retained as a source problem.
Dated texts & artworks
1890Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach (posthumous portrait) Dominicus Custos · 1601 Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, B+ 3; e-rara, doi:10.3931/e-rara-79794 Image source · Name source · Rights
Landsknecht captain and military entrepreneur who served in the Italian Wars, entered Augsburg’s service, and later commanded for the Schmalkaldic League. His autobiography and correspondence are important evidence for a soldier’s career.
Dated texts & artworks
1601Posthumous portrait
Named portrait in part III of Custos’s Atrium heroicum. This is the publication year, not a life event.
Source wording:als Hauptmann über zwölf Fähnlein Landsknechte
English: as captain over twelve companies of Landsknechte
Signed nineteenth-century biography citing Schertlin’s autobiography and letters; its rhetoric is not adopted.
Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach (posthumous portrait), 1601. Engraving and letterpress. Stadtbibliothek Schaffhausen, via e-rara, B+ 3; part III; image 22431717.
Nuremberg printmaker closely associated with soldier broadsheets and named Landsknecht figures. His work with local publishers connects military imagery with popular printed verse.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1520–1530Period artwork
Heyne in the church lane; attributed and dated in Seggern’s catalogue.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Habsburg commander, diplomat, and military writer. He led a German Landsknecht regiment in the war of 1556–1559 and later served in Hungary; his military writings examined the weaknesses of mercenary recruitment and command.
The modern NDB gives 1583 as his death year; the older ADB gives 1584. The newer scholarly biography is followed here.
Dated texts & artworks
1593Posthumous portrait
Author portrait and named Kriegs-Discurs, in the Frankfurt edition published after his death.
Source wording:Kommando über ein Regiment dt. Landsknechte
English: command of a regiment of German Landsknechte
The 2010 NDB corrects the older ADB death date. Its works list identifies the posthumous 1593 Kriegs Discurs.
Lazarus von Schwendi (posthumous portrait), 1593. Printed portrait; technique not specified in the book record. Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg, RA 88/71; portrait scan 0006.
Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg, RA 88/71, Kriegs-Discurs (1593)
Author portrait in the 1593 edition, followed by the poem In imaginem Baronis Suendii. Published after Schwendi’s death.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Institution-supplied image retained unchanged; no crop, retouching, or colour alteration.
Portrait of Franz von Sickingen Hieronymus Hopfer; this impression issued by David Funck · plate 1515–1550; this impression 1684 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-76.740 Image source · Name source · Rights
Imperial knight and war entrepreneur who mobilized troops for private and princely campaigns. His operations and recruiting networks intersect with the history of Landsknecht captains and the crises of the early Reformation.
A knightly military entrepreneur; he is not being identified as an ordinary Landsknecht.
Dated texts & artworks
2010Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Franz von Sickingen, plate 1515–1550; this impression 1684. Etching on iron. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-76.740.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-76.740
The catalogue and the printed German cartouche identify Franz von Sickingen. The displayed Funck impression is posthumous and is dated separately from the earlier plate.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Portrait of Virgil Solis, 1563–1593. Etching. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-49.976.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-49.976
The catalogue names Virgil Solis as the sitter; the print is posthumous and bears the initials VS in the image.
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Military commander, fortification specialist, and author of ordinances concerning military offices, discipline, artillery, and camp organization. His writings overlap with Konrad von Boyneburg’s work on Landsknecht organization.
Dated texts & artworks
1892Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Nuremberg woodcut designer associated with soldier figures, military offices, and named speakers such as Clas Winttergrön. The individual titles do not by themselves establish the sitters as real soldiers.
Dated texts & artworks
c. 1520–1530Period artwork
Schueknecht, one of the occupational soldier figures catalogued by Seggern; the title is an occupational label, not a personal name.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Title, attribution, and dating checked in Seggern’s illustration catalogue. This is scholarly identification of the artwork, not independent inspection of the original sheet.
Georg III. Truchseß von Waldburg, genannt: Der Bauernjörg Hans Burgkmair the Younger (catalogue attribution) · Date not supplied by catalogue Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, photograph 104.352 Image source · Name source · Rights
Commander and diplomat of the Swabian League, central to the military repression of the Peasants’ War of 1525. His place in Landsknecht history concerns recruitment, princely service, and violence against insurgents.
The familiar name “Bauernjörg” is securely attested much later; the NDB qualifies its possible use in 1525.
Dated texts & artworks
2020Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
The Bildindex institutional record specifically names Georg III Truchsess von Waldburg in this hand-coloured woodcut book page and attributes the page to Hans Burgkmair the Younger; it supplies no date.
English: Army commander, diplomat, hereditary truchsess
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Georg III. Truchseß von Waldburg, genannt: Der Bauernjörg, Date not supplied by catalogue. Hand-coloured woodcut on a book page. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; image catalogue via Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur, Cod. germ. 1292; Bildindex obj20089588; image mi02369a12.
The institutional record specifically names Georg III Truchsess von Waldburg, called the Bauernjörg, and catalogues the image as a hand-coloured woodcut book page by Hans Burgkmair the Younger. The catalogue does not supply a date for this page.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: CC0 1.0. The institution-delivered large JPEG is reproduced without editorial crop, retouching, or tonal adjustment.
Woodcut designer whose work includes Maximilian’s portrait and illustrations of contemporary social life. He belongs in the register as an image maker, not as an identified soldier.
The end of his documented activity is not a secure death date.
Dated texts & artworks
2020Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Bavarian infantry commander in the Swabian League’s Württemberg campaign of 1519 and at Pavia in 1525. Surviving reports underpin his historical biography.
The ADB discusses conflicting birth evidence. Distinguish him from earlier family members also named Kaspar.
Dated texts & artworks
1898Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Christoph von Wrisberg D. C. C. Fleischmann, after a painting by Johann Peter Haburg · 1732 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-2916 Image source · Name source · Rights
North German mercenary commander whose employers included the English crown and imperial authorities. His career illustrates the movement of German infantry between northern European wars.
Dated texts & artworks
1898Scholarly biography
The signed biography documents the career and identifies earlier sources.
Signed scholarly biography. Life dates and career are taken from the article, not an automatically merged authority heading; dated interpretations remain open to correction.
Portrait of Christoph von Wrisberg, 1732. Engraving. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-2916.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1914-2916
The catalogue names Christoph von Wrisberg as the sitter and records the print as made after a painting by Johann Peter Haburg.
Work: Public domain. Digital image: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Downloaded through the Rijksmuseum IIIF Image API at a maximum dimension of 1600 pixels; no editorial crop, retouching, or colour adjustment.
