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Jost Amman
Portrait of Jost Amman
Born
(1539-06-03)3 June 1539
Zürich, Old Swiss Confederacy
Died
17 March 1591(1591-03-17) (aged 51)
Nuremberg, Bavaria
Nationality (legal)
Swiss, German
Known for
Woodcuts
Notable work
Das Ständebuch
Movement
Northern Renaissance
Formschneider, that is, block-cutter for woodcuts, 1568. From Das Ständebuch, a famous series of woodcuts of the trades by Amman (who would not usually have done his own cutting)
Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations.
JostAmman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Amman...
Jost is both a German given name and a surname and a Jewish (Ashkenazi) surname. Notable people with the name include: JostAmman (1539–1591), Swiss Jost...
on 27 September 1446. Skanderbeg's return to Krujë, 1444 (woodcut by JostAmman) A woodcut of the battle of Varna in 1444 At the beginning of the Albanian...
by German Renaissance goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer, with engravings by JostAmman, published in 1568. Despite its Latin title, Perspectiva corporum regularium...
the corresponding device in the illustrated woodcut "Der Schleyffer" by JostAmman from his "Ständebuch," c. 1568. As a result of the emerging demand, scissors...
of 2,000 recipes and instructions for wine making and 150 woodcuts by JostAmman. Rumpolt's cookbook was, like all cookbooks for that period, intended...
painting, occult elements appear. Prints by Hans Sebald Beham (1539) and JostAmman (1589) are clearly related. In the Baroque period, representations of...
Andreae (who also used "Formschneider" as his surname), Hans Lützelburger and Jost de Negker, all of whom ran workshops and also operated as printers and publishers...
(grave No. 664). His grave is decorated in bronze and has an epitaph by JostAmman, an artist known for his woodcuts. Examples of his work can be seen in...
Catherine Vasa, Regent of East Frisia (1599-1610) (d. 1610) June 13 – JostAmman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591) June 23 – William Darrell of Littlecote, English...
Evaluation of Classical Guitar Soundports". American Lutherie (96): 54. JostAmman: Der Lautenmacher - The Lute Maker by Kenneth Sparr Traditional versus...
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579) 1539 – JostAmman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591) 1555 – Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian mathematician...
of Albanian–Ottoman Wars (1432–1479) Woodcut depicting the battle by JostAmman, 1587 Belligerents League of Lezhë Republic of Venice Ottoman Empire Commanders...
Frankfurt in 1581. He published an armorial of the Holy Roman Empire in 1555. JostAmman was an assistant of Solis' before starting his own workshop. Solis eventually...
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