Christoph Weiditz

Not very serious self-portrait by Christoph Weiditz from 1523. He was born in 1498.

Christoph Weiditz (* 1498 in Strasbourg , † 1560 in Augsburg ) was a German painter , medalist , picture carver and goldsmith .

Life

The family relationship between Christoph Weiditz and his brother Hans Weiditz and the sculptor Hans Wydyz has not been proven. He spent a large part of his life in Strasbourg and Augsburg. There he created small sculptures and especially portrait medals , 117 of which are still known today.

Christoph Weiditz was in Spain between 1528 and 1529 . Presumably he was staying at the imperial court of Charles V during this time . It was at this time that Hernán Cortés made drawings for his costume book and the famous first European pictures of Indians , Aztec ball players , who demonstrated their art in Spain.

Weiditz is important as one of the four most important German Renaissance medalists alongside Hans Schwarz , Friedrich Hagenauer and Matthes Gebel .

literature

Paul Grotemeyer : Weiditz, Christoph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 267 .
Theodor Hampe (Ed.): The Trachtenbuch des Weiditz from his trips to Spain (1529) and the Netherlands (1531/32) . 1927 ( Google Books, snippets only ). Reprint: Dover Publications, New York NY 1994, ISBN 0-486-27975-8 .
Andrea McKenzie Satterfield: The assimilation of the marvelous other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an ethnographic document . ( Full text as PDF )

Web links

Commons : Christoph Weiditz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Trachtenbuch des Christoph Weiditz - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Christoph Weiditz in the catalog of the German National Library
Christoph Weiditz in the Victoria and Albert Museum
knowledge-digital
Traditional costume book by Christoph Weiditz Digitized from the library of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg

Individual evidence

^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Weiditz, Christoph. Volume VIII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1930, p. 255 ff .
^ L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Weiditz, Christoph. Volume VI. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1916, p. 423 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weiditz, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, medalist, picture carver and goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH	1498
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	1560
Place of death	augsburg

[1] L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Weiditz, Christoph. Volume VIII. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1930, p. 255 ff .

[2] L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists . Weiditz, Christoph. Volume VI. Spink & Son Ltd, London 1916, p. 423 .