Portrait of Johann Kleberger
Portrait of Johann Kleberger is a 1526 oil on limewood panel painting by Albrecht Dürer, signed and dated by the artist and now in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

The work was produced in Nuremberg the same year as he produced his portraits of Hieronymus Holzschuher and Jakob Muffel. Kleberger was a rich merchant and financier who had married the widowed daughter of Dürer's close friend Willibald Pirckheimer. On its subject's death the work passed to his stepson Willibal Imhof, who then sold it to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Painted in the format of a classical medal, possibly inspired by Hans Burgkmair's engravings of Roman medals, the artist shows his subject as a sculpture-like bust in a medallion in a circular gap in a "trompe-l'œil" wall. Inside the circle is the inscription , with heraldic motifs in three of the corners and the date 1526 and the artist's monogram in the fourth corner.
Q5580
Albrecht Dürer
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Q95569
Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Q2090
Nuremberg
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Q3937568
Hieronymus Holzschuher
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Q3937578
Jakob Muffel
MEDIA
Q62663
Willibald Pirckheimer
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Q150586
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Q313163
Hans Burgkmair
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Q468930
trompe-l'œil
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Q2130035
Portrait of Johann Kleberger
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1526-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1526
DATE
1526-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1526
DATE
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collection
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inception
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