Hans Weigel the Elder

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second half of the 16th century

Hans Weigel the Elder , also Hanns Weygel , (* around 1520 in Amberg; † before 1577 ) was a German form cutter , engraver, printer , letter painter and publisher .

Life

Weigel had been a citizen in Nuremberg since 1549 . His publishing house published a number of single-sheet prints, especially portraits (Elector Johann Friederich of Saxony, King Johann III of Portugal, Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, Erasmus of Rotterdam with the sculpture of the border god Terminus, Philipp Melanchthon, Hans Sachs), religious picture sheets and leaflets, all as woodcuts with lettering in type printing. Whether Weigel was always the wood cutter for these leaves can only be guessed at. Some of his large-format cityscapes (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Munich, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock) are marked with the monogram MW (= the wood cutter Martin Weigel?) (Bremen, Cologne). In 1577 his well-known costume book or costume book Habitus praecipuorum populorum tam virorum quam faeminarum was published with verses by Hans Sachs and 220 traditional costumes. including u. a. the copperplate engravings "Indian woman in a feather coat" and "Warrior with a club".

His son, Hans Weigel the Younger, was also a letter painter and wood cutter in Nuremberg; he probably died around 1590.

literature

Hans Weigel: Habitus praecipuorum populorum tam virorum quam feminarum singulari arte depicti , Nuremberg: Weigel, 1577 digitized
Hans Weigel the Elder . 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. 279 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Weigel (engraver) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Hans Weigel the Elder in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Hans Weigel the Elder in VD 16 .

Individual evidence

↑ Incomplete overview of the copies in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
↑ The oldest realistic cityscape of Bremen. Around 1550–1565. Reprints of the original printing block are known from 1808. Herbert Schwarzwälder : View of Bremen , Bremen 1985, p. 6, supplement, p. 1.
↑ Reprint: Habitus praecipuorum populorum, ... Walter Uhl, Unterschneidheim 1969.

personal data
SURNAME	Weigel, Hans the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weygel, Hans; Weigel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German book illustrator, form cutter and printer
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1520
DATE OF DEATH	1577

[1] Incomplete overview of the copies in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg

[2] The oldest realistic cityscape of Bremen. Around 1550–1565. Reprints of the original printing block are known from 1808. Herbert Schwarzwälder : View of Bremen , Bremen 1985, p. 6, supplement, p. 1.

[3] Reprint: Habitus praecipuorum populorum, ... Walter Uhl, Unterschneidheim 1969.