Balthasar Denner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Balthasar Denner

German painter

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1685

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1749

Profession: painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Balthasar Denner (15 November 1685 – 14 April 1749) was a German painter, highly regarded as a portraitist.
He painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors.
Usually Denner concentrated on the face; clothes and paraphernalia were done by other painters or later his daughter.
His chief peculiarity consisted in the fineness of his mechanical finish, which extended to depicting even the almost invisible furze of hair growing on smooth skin.
He is particularly noted for his heads of old men and women.



Description	German painter
Date of birth/death	15 November 1685	14 April 1749
Location of birth/death	Hamburg	Rostock
Work location	Hamburg, London, Amsterdam, Schwerin
Authority control	: Q538158 VIAF: 44565944 ISNI: 0000 0000 6657 9255 ULAN: 500012324 LCCN: nr93010274 GND: 119355396 WorldCat