Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (German, 1513–1568) was a painter, printmaker, and draftsman active during the mid-16th century, best known for his portraits and book illustrations. The son of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, he trained within his father’s workshop before establishing his own career in Augsburg, a thriving center of humanist culture and print production. His works reflect the stylistic currents of the German Renaissance, combining finely observed likenesses with an interest in clarity of line and compositional balance.
Vogtherr produced panel paintings and woodcuts for devotional and secular contexts, contributing to the circulation of imagery in Reformation-era Germany. Though often overshadowed by his father and contemporaries, his oeuvre reveals the role of secondary masters in sustaining the visual culture of the period and the networks of print and patronage that shaped artistic production in 16th-century Augsburg.
