Biography

Lukas Furtenagel was a German painter, part of a family of artists active in Augsburg in the sixteenth century. He worked in the circle of Hans Burgkmair in Augsburg and Halle between 1542 and 1546. Among the rare paintings attributed to him the most famous is the Portrait of Hans Burgkmair and his Wife Anna before a Mirror (1529, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).