Michael
Wolgemut (1434 – 1519)
German painter and printmaker
Wolgemut was a pupil of Hans Pleydenwurff
(about 1420 - 1472) in Nuremberg where he founded
a (or carried on his teacher's) workshop from
about 1473, in which many different branches
of the fine arts were carried out. Together
with Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460 - 1494) he made
many woodcuts for the Nuremberg Chronicle, edited
and published by Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg
1493, and also made many of the preliminary
drawings.
Hartmann Schedel (1440 - 1514)
German physician, humanist and historian
From 1456 Schedel studied at the university
of Leipzig and in Padua from 1463. In 1466 he
came back to Nuremberg, from 1470 until 77 he
worked as a physician in Nördlingen, then in
Amberg, and from 1482 he lived in Nuremberg
again.
Hartmann Schedel, who was a wealthy and influential
citizen of Nuremberg, became popular mainly
as an author and editor of the "Nuremberg
Chronicle", published in a Latin and German
edition in Nuremberg 1493.
The woodcut-illustrations of the chronicle,
at all more than 1800, were made in the workshop
of Michael Wolgemut from 1487. Maybe some were
also created by Albrecht Dürer, who completed
an apprenticeship with Wolgemut between 1486
and 1490.
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