# MIELICH, Hans [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1516–1573 - Profession: painter - School: German ## Biography German painter and illuminator. He was a leading painter in Munich of religious compositions, manuscript illuminations and portraits. He studied with his father, Wolfgang Mielich, a Munich municipal painter, who appears in the Munich tax records from 1509 onwards, but the years 1536-39, spent with Albrecht Altdorfer in Regensburg, were decisive for Hans Mielich's approach to colour. In 1536 he illuminated the title-page to the Freiheitenbuch of the city of Regensburg \(Regensburg, Stadtmuseum\). In 1541 Mielich travelled to Rome on a commission from Duke William IV of Bavaria. He stayed there until 1543, when he became a master in Munich. From 1545 onwards Duke Albert V of Bavaria helped him obtain commissions, and in 1558 Mielich became leader of the Munich painters' guild. He consistently signed his works with the monogram HM \(=M in H\). ## Related artworks - [High Altar]() - [Meeting of the Regensburg Council]() - [Portrait of Doctor Johann von Schwabbach]() - [Portrait of Ladislaus von Fraunberg, Count of Haag]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()