PD
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Austrian artist
A.K.A.
Paul Dax the Elder, Paul, The Elder Dax, Paul Dax The Elder, I Dax, the elder Dax
Gender:
Male
Places:
Birth:
1503(Sterzing, Italy)
Death:
1561(Innsbruck, Austria)
The details
Biography
Paul Dax (1503–1561) was an Austrian artist.
Dax was born in the Tyrol. He led a very unsteady life, and after having gained reputation as a painter, he gave up art, and entered the army, engaging in several campaigns and the sieges of Naples, Florence, and Vienna. In 1530 he devoted himself to glass-painting, and his works, which are of considerable merit, are now in the court-house of Innsbruck, and in the town-hall at Ensisheim, Alsace. He also published several maps of his country. His death occurred in 1561.