Hans Sibmacher

Hans Sibmacher was an artist active during the late sixteenth century, with a documented professional period spanning from approximately 1590 to 1597. His extant body of work is comprised primarily of high-quality prints focusing on historical portraiture of notable contemporary military and political figures.

Six of Sibmacher’s prints are currently represented in major international museum collections, confirming the provenance and historical significance of his output. These holdings include works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Cleveland Museum of Art. His subjects include the political and military elites of the era, such as the Portret van Carl Ludwig, graaf van Sulz, landgraaf van Klettgau, and the Portret van Lazarus von Schwendi. Sibmacher also documented figures from outside Western Europe, exemplified by the Portret van Pasha Sinan. Other known works include the Portret van Nikola Zrinski and the Portret van Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, hertog van Mercoeur.

The preservation of these historical Hans Sibmacher prints ensures that detailed examples of late sixteenth-century portrait engraving remain available for scholarly review. Due to the age of these artifacts, much of this material is now in the public domain, making museum-quality reproductions widely accessible to researchers and institutions.