# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hendrik-goltzius
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:58.410Z

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tagline: "German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558-1617)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Goltz somewhere in Germany in early 1558, Hendrik Goltzius became Dutch by trade and temper. He led Northern engraving into the Baroque, mastering a technique so sophisticated it set the standard across the Low Countries. By mid-career he'd begun painting as well, though his reputation rests on the prints: swaggering, exuberant, technically flawless. He died in January 1617, the last of a kind — a printmaker who commanded the authority of a serious painter and whose invented images became templates for a generation.