Nuremberg chronicle michael wolgemut biography
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Michael Wolgemut
15th to 16th-century German painter and printmaker
Michael Wolgemut (formerly spelt Wohlgemuth; 1434 – 30 November 1519) was a German painter and printmaker, who ran a workshop in Nuremberg. He is best known as having taught the young Albrecht Dürer.
The importance of Wolgemut as an artist rests not only on his own individual works, but also on the fact that he was the head of a large workshop, in which many different branches of the fine arts were carried on by a great number of pupil-assistants, including Albrecht Dürer, who completed an apprenticeship with him between 1486 and 1489. In his atelier large altar-pieces and other sacred paintings were executed, and also elaborate carved painted wood retables, consisting of crowded subjects in high relief, richly decorated with gold and colour.[1]
Wolgemut was a leader among the artists reviving the standards of German woodcut at this time. The production of woodcuts was a large part of the work of the workshop, the blocks being cut from Wolgemut's designs. They were mostly made to supply the many publishers in Nuremberg with book illustrations, with the most attractive also being sold separately. Wolgemut's woodcuts followed the advances in engraving, depicting volume and s
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The Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493
The Nuremberg Chronicle is a fitting name because the driving force in its creation was a small but determined group of citizens of the imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. Its author Hartmann Schedel was a learned humanist who wished to produce a chronicle of world history that would reflect his scholarship. It was very much a collaborative affair, bringing together a group of people to work on this ambitious Renaissance project. Crucially it gained the backing of a leading Nuremberg merchant and humanist, Sebald Schreyer (1446-1520), and his brother-in-law Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503), a fellow merchant. Their financial support ensured that the project was taken on by the influential Nuremberg printer Anton Koberger (c.1440–1513), and illustrated by two leading artists based in Nuremberg, Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (c. 1450-94).
The result is a joyous mixture of humanist scholarship, wonderful printing and amazing book design which reflect the aspirations and ambitions of Nuremberg humanists during the Renaissance. The Library of Trinity College Dublin is fortunate to possess the first edition of 1493 and the pirated Augsburg edition of 1497.
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The Nuremberg Chronicle, first Denizen edition, 1493
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