Card painter

Map painters were originally manufacturers and reproducers of full-page, partly hand-colored woodcut boards with representations from the Bible, from the legends of saints , etc.

Soon this word was used to describe people who dealt with maps in an analogous way , ie cartographers , as well as people who dealt with playing cards accordingly , ie playing card painters.

Card painters belonged - as a painter , carver , and Glaser - to Kramer and carpenters' guild.

See also

• Letter painter
• Shape cutter
• Single-leaf woodcut

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Hermann Seitz: On the question of the Lauingen painter Georg Brentel . In: “Yearbook of the Historical Association Dillingen” LXI – LXIII, Dillingen-Donau 1961, p. 31 according to: K. Linnartz: Our family names , Bd. I, Bonn 1958, p. 119
2. ↑ Ludwig von Schorn: On the history of carving in Germany . In: "Morning paper for educated stands": Art sheet. January 5, 1836-14. January 1836, p. 1.

literature

• Theodor Kohlmann : model engraver, letter painter, illuminist and map painter . In: Lexikon des alten Handwerks , ed. v. Reinhold Reith , Munich, CH Beck 1990, ISBN 3-406-34470-4 , pp. 164-167