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Hans Leu the Younger (ca. 1490 – 24 October 1531) was a Swiss painter, native to Zürich.

He was the son of the painter Hans Leu the Elder, with whom he probably had his first training as an artist.[1] He traveled in Nuremberg ca. 1510 where he worked in the studio of Albrecht Dürer, and he later may have worked with Hans Baldung in Freiburg-im-Breisgau.[2] By 1514 he had returned to Zürich, where he became the city's foremost painter.[3]

As Zürich came under the influence of the iconoclastic church reformer Huldrych Zwingli, commissions for church decorations became scarce.[1] Much of Leu's work was destroyed by followers of Zwingli in 1523.[1] Leu became a mercenary to support himself, and was killed on 24 October 1531 in the battle of Gubel.[3]

Leu's surviving works include a small number of paintings and woodcuts, drawings of religious subjects, and landscape studies.[1] Museums holding works by Leu include the Städel in Frankfurt and the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[2]

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- [en] Hans Leu the Younger

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[fr] Hans Leu le Jeune

Hans Leu le Jeune (né vers 1490 à Zurich, mort le 24 octobre 1531 à Gubel) est un peintre zurichois.

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[it] Hans Leu il Giovane

Hans Leu il Giovane (in tedesco: Hans Leu der Jüngere; Zurigo, c. 1485-90[1] – Gubel, 24 ottobre 1531[1]) è stato un pittore svizzero.

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