# Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach

- By: Conrad Faber (German, c. 1500–by 1553)
- Date: 1532
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 50.4 × 35.7 cm (19 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Framed: 68.3 × 53.5 cm (26 7/8 × 21 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/21672)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/bb5e78bd8aafed38854e2a503101d424.jpg
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This portrait would have served as a document of a marriage. Friedrich Rorbach’s name, age, and coat of arms, along with the date, are painted on the back of the panel, which was originally paired with a portrait of his wife, Katherina Knoblauchin, now in the National Gallery of Ireland. The two portraits share the same background— a fanciful mountain landscape. Conrad Faber, who worked in Frankfurt-am-Main, specialized in portraits depicting the patrician elite of that prosperous city. In the early 16th century, the energy and self-confidence of the many courts and free cities loosely united in the Holy Roman Empire brought about an artistic flowering in Germany.

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