AMBERGER, Christoph

German painter, Swabian school (b. ca. 1505, Augsburg, d. 1562, Augsburg)

Amberger was an Augsburg portrait painter whose works resemble those of Holbein, but with a strong Venetian influence, perhaps due to Paris Bordone, who may have visited Augsburg in 1540. There is a signed altarpiece of 1560 in St Anna, Augsburg, but the only signed portrait by him seems to be the Emperor Charles V (Berlin). There are works in Augsburg, Birmingham (Barber Institute), Glasgow, Munich, Philadelphia (Johnson), Toledo, Ohio, Vienna and York.