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Thomas Burgkmair (1444-1523)

• Was a German painter.
• The father of Hans Burgkmair, and the father-in-law of Hans Holbein the elder.
• He is mentioned in the records of the Painters' Guild at Augsburg in 1460, and in public documents there in 1479.
• In 1480 he painted a Christ with St. Ulric and a Virgin with St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, both in the cathedral at Augsburg.
• Burgkmair died at Augsburg in 1523.