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Michael Wohlgemuth

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Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...as works by Francesco Botticini, Lorenzo Costa and Michael Wolgemut. One would like to know what has happened to those...contrivances. Instead of a triptych by Durer's master, Wolgemut, there is a case of moulded paper shoes. Instead...
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Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 6/17/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...1450s and as a young man was apprenticed to the painter Michael Wolgemut. When the Nuremberg Chronicle was published towards the end of the 15th century it was Wolgemut's engravings which were used throughout this extraordinarily...
By-the-book Durer.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/11/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Durer learned entrepreneurship from him. Koberger employed the great woodcutter Michael Wolgemut for the "Nuremberg Chronicle." Durer was apprenticed to Wolgemut between 1486 and 1489 and learned his woodcutting skills from him. Trained as...
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Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 12/18/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the right craftsmen. He employed the great woodcutter Michael Wolgemut, to whom Durer apprenticed between 1486 and 1489...The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals," "St. Michael Fighting the Dragon," "The Seven Angels With Trumpets...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/30/1998; 547 words ; ...Douglas Adrian, first Baron Adrian, physiologist, 1889. Deaths: Edmund Ironside, King of the English, 1016; Michael Wolgemut (Wohlgemuth), painter, 1519; William Habington, poet, 1654; John Selden, lawyer and antiquarian, 1654...
Text, Culture, and Print-Media in Early Modern Translation: Notes on the "Nuremberg Chronicle" (1493)
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister and the artists Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurlf, alludes to manuscript exemplars...historians, while composing very little of his own; Michael Haitz identified most of Schedel's sources in his...
Antiques & Auctions: Early start put Drer on road to lasting success; FINE ART: Attention to detail marked young artist out.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 7/6/2002; 700+ words ; ...who had arranged his young godson's apprenticeship with the premier book illustrator and printer in Nuremberg, Michael Wolgemut. It seems harsh to expect a child to work these hours today, but this young man started his formal training at...
Printmaker's work still captivates
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/28/1999; ; 572 words ; ...170 woodcuts. Born in Nuremburg in 1471, he trained as a goldsmith with his father and then as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut. He began making engravings in 1495 and in 1516 began exploring etching. From 1521 until his death seven years...
Albrecht Durer: Kunstler, Werk und Zeit.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...s father dates only to the eighteenth century. Grebe dismisses the traditional attribution of certain works to Michael Wolgemut, Durer's teacher. She notes the shakiness of our knowledge of Durer's wanderjahre, especially his achievements...
German Renaissance Prints: 1490-1550.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...tradition is represented by a group of only three prints consisting of woodcuts designed by Albrecht Durer's teacher, Michael Wolgemut, and his business partner Wilhelm Pleydenwufff, along with Martin Schongauer's Death of the Virgin, which was...

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Wolgemut, Michael
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Wolgemut, Michael ( b Nuremberg, c. 1435; d Nuremberg...distinctive individual personality, and Wolgemut is more important for his role in the...possibilities of the medium’. Wolgemut is also remembered as Dürer...
Michael Wolgemut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Michael Wolgemut , 1434-1519, German painter, wood...highly patterned, almost abstract style. Wolgemut was the master of Albrecht Dü...and Schwabach, executed in his shop, Wolgemut produced hundreds of designs for illustrated...
Dürer, Albrecht
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...xFC;rer left his father's workshop to study with Michael Wolgemut , the leading local painter. By this time he had already...Christlike figure, rather than as a humble craftsman.) Wolgemut was a prolific book illustrator as well as a painter...
Dürer, Albrecht
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...learned goldsmithing from his father. From 1486 to 1489 he studied painting with Michael Wolgemut (then the leading church painter of Nuremberg); in Wolgemut ’ s workshop he was able to learn not only all the standard painting techniques...
Albrecht Dürer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Apprenticeship From 1486 to 1490 Dürer was apprenticed to the Nuremberg painter and woodcut illustrator Michael Wolgemut, following which he went on his bachelor's journey, the route of which is not known but which presumably led...

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