Willibald Imhoff

Willibald Imhoff (born 16 November 1519 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, died 25 January 1580) was an art collector of the famous Nuremberg Imhoff family, and the grandson of Willibald Pirckheimer.

Even after that he regularly made trips to Lyon and Zaragoza as a partner of the trading company.

Since Willibald Pirckheimer died in 1530 without descendants in the male line, his library and a large part of his art possession passed to Willibald Imhoff.

The art collection was successively expanded by Imhoff as the Imhoff art cabinet and included among other works by his grandfather's close friend Albrecht Dürer (including his Portrait of Johann Kleberger) works by Holbein, Cranach, Titian and Paris Bordone.

He bought a large number of ancient and contemporary statues and busts made of marble or clay, a rich copperplate collection, numerous drawings by famous masters, faience, Venetian glasses, and expanded the Pirckheimer library.