Feyner master

A woodcutter who worked in Swabia around 1480 is sometimes referred to as a Feyner master . The artist, who is not known by name, was given this emergency name after his work that he created for the Swabian book printer Conrad Feyner . He had his printing works first in Esslingen and then from 1479 in Urach .

The artistic woodcuts by the Feyner master and the often large initials copied from the copper engraving alphabet of the master ES make the books printed by Feyner important works of woodcut and printing of the 15th century. They show that the German incunable woodcut had reached its maturity at this time .

Works (selection)

The Feyner master created illustrations for the following works printed by Feyner

• Stern meschiah , apologetic work by Petrus Nigri , printed in Esslingen in 1477
• Wisdom of the Wise Men of Bidpai , printed in Urach in 1480, first illustrated edition of this popular work with Indian fables
• Plenarium , German plenary , printed in Urach in 1481, vernacular work with the epistles and gospels of the church year

literature

• Philipp Wolff: Foreword to The Book of the Wise . In: Bidpai: The book of the wise in pleasurable and instructive stories by the Indian philosopher Bidpai , Volume 1. Stuttgart 1839
• Ernst Voulliéme: The German Printers of the 15th Century , Berlin 1922
• lbert. Schramm: The picture decoration of the early prints. Vol 9: The printers in Esslingen, Urach, Stuttgart, Reutlingen, Tübingen and Blaubeuren , Leipzig 1926
• Marion Janzin, Joachim Günter: The book from the book. 5000 years of book history , Hanover 2007
• Margaretha Boockmann: Salve Sancta Parens. Hebrew exercises by a late medieval scribe named Konrad Wolf , in: Christfried Böttrich u. a. (Ed.): Between censorship and self-reflection. Christian reception of Judaism. J. Männchen on his 70th birthday , Frankfurt am Main 2009, pp. 77-92 (on Petrus Nigri and Feyner).
• Ferdinand Geldner:  Fyner (Feyner), Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 746 ( digitized version ).