Full Name: Heller, Joseph
Other Names:
- Joseph Heller
Gender: male
Date Born: 1849
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): German (culture, style, period), German Renaissance-Baroque styles, Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance, painting (visual works), and Renaissance
Overview
Cranach scholar and early 19th-century writing on German renaissance art. Heller was the first to publish, albeit in excerpt, the biographical writing of Johannes Neudörfer on Nuremberg artists, Nachrichten von Künstlern und Werkleuten of 1547. He was a later contributor to the Le Peintre-graveur of Adam von Bartsch.
Selected Bibliography
Lucas Cranach’s Leben und Werke. Bamberg: C.F. Kunz, 1821; and Jäck, Joachim Heinrich. Beiträge zur Kunst- und Literatur-Geschichte. Nuremberg: Riegel und Wiesner, 1822; Das leben und die werke Albrecht Dürer’s. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1831; Züsatze zu Adam Bartsch’s Le peintre-graveur. Nuremberg: Lotzbeck, 1854.