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| ALDEGREVER, Heinrich |
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ALDEGREVER, Heinrich (real surname TRIPPENMEKER), German painter, engraver, and goldsmith : b. Paderborn, Westphalia, 1502; d. Soest, c. 1560. He was the son of Hermann Aldegrever of Paderborn and when still a young man, became a citizen of Soest where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. The last date recorded on one of his engravings is 1555, and, in 1561, in answer to a request from a relative in Strassburg, the city council wrote that he was deceased. He had as his patron, Duke Wilhelm of Cleve, and, like most artists of his day, worked at various branches of his craft, such as sculpture, and goldsmithing.
Among the paintings attributed to him are the Portrait of a Young Man (1544), Young Man with a Pink (not dated), The Resurrection (1529), and the Portrait of Englebert Therlaen (1551), the last being the only certain example of his work. His greatest importance was as an engraver, and his style shows the marked influence of Albrecht Diirer.