
Katharina Merian
Hans Brosamer

Renaissance Painter · Active 1552 – 1552
Paintale's collection includes 1 paintings attributed to Hans Brosamer, a figure of the Renaissance period whose recurring subjects — daily life — trace a consistent set of preoccupations across a career's worth of commissions.
Where to see the work: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The paintings by Hans Brosamer gathered on Paintale span daily life, a set of concerns typical of an artist working through the Renaissance period. Taken as a group, they show a consistent visual language rather than a series of unrelated commissions.
Today, paintings by Hans Brosamer are held in major institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each work on Paintale unpacks the subject, the symbolism, the technique, and the long afterlife of the painting — why it was commissioned, what its earliest viewers were expected to see, and why it still rewards close looking today.
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