Anton II, Hieronymus e Iohan erano tre fratelli disegnatori e incisori membri di una famiglia di valenti incisori e illustratori di libri attiva ad Anversa e a Bruxelles nella seconda metà del XVI secolo e agli inizi del XVII. I tre fratelli furono probabilmente addestrati...
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Painter and xylograph of the German Renaissance active between 1502 and 1526, whose woodcuts are his only remaining work. Although most of his engravings were performed as book illustrations, he was also a prolific creator of chiaroscuro woodcuts with two or more colors produced as...
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Austrian engraver, draftsman and painter, son of the carpenter Anthon Weirauther and Gertraud Orner. Orphan at the age of seven, he was assigned to an aunt with whom he remained until the age of fourteen....
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German draftsman and etcher. After a period of training in Strasbourg he moved to Paris where he opened a thriving school of drawing and engraving, attended by numerous students, some of whom became known engravers: Weirotter, Beisson, Byrne, Daudet, Schultze, Klauber etc ...
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Draftsman, engraver and painter born in the north of France from Flemish parents belonging to the Calvinist Christian movement. Persecuted for religious reasons, they moved to Holland, where first his mother (Magdalena Vaillant) and later himself (1630) became members of the Walloon Church of Amsterdam. ...
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German painter and engraver, son of Jaspar Woensam "the elder", also an active painter in the early 16th century. The date of his birth is not certain, but it can be placed between 1493 and 1500, presumably in Worms, a town on the banks of the...
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Little is known about the life of this painter and woodcut engraver from Nuremberg. In 1472 he married the widow of the painter Hans Pleydenwurff whose son Wilhelm was first assistant and then collaborator of the stepfather....
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