beham mostly engraved pictures of peasants and scenes from myths or history, sometimes with erotic scenes as well. since he was working at the same time as dürer, the most recognised artist at the time, one of his early woodcuts, "head of christ", was thought to have been done by dürer. beham also worked with his brother barthel, and shared ideas with him. later, he re-drew some of dürer's works like gus melancholia of 1539.