Master of the Haintz Fool

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A woodcut master who worked in Basel around 1490 is referred to as the master of the Haintz Narr . He created between 15 or 56 of a total of 158 woodcuts for Sebastian Brant's ship of fools printed in Basel in 1494 . He got his emergency name after the woodcut inscribed with Haintz-nar in the 5th chapter of this work. The master was involved in the illustration of various works, mainly printed in Basel, for several years.

Works (selection)

Sebastian Brant: That Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam . Basel, 1494.

The master of the Haintz fool will u. a. Woodcuts assigned to illustrate the following works:

Itinerarium seu peregrinatio beatae virginis Mariae . Ulm, approx. 1487-88
The laudable princes and the land of austria altharkomen and government . Basel, after 1491
Bertholdus: The real zitglögglyn of life vnd lide [n] s after the vviiii hours . Basel 1492
Christophorus Columbus: Epistola de insulis nuper inventis . Basel 1494

literature

Romy Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing (approx. 1470–1510). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8309-1712-0 ( studies and texts on the Middle Ages and early modern times 11).

Web links

Digitized editions (accessed January 2010):

The Haintz Fool at Bibliotheca Augustana
Itinerarium seu peregrinatio beatae virginis Mariae at the Munich digitization center of the Bavarian State Library
The authentic zitglögglyn of life and lid after the vviiii hours divided at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Duchess Anna Amalia library
Christophorus Columbus: Epistola de insulis nuper inventis at the University Library Mannheim

Individual evidence

↑ F. Winkler: Dürer and the illustrations for the ship of fools. The artist's Basel and Strasbourg works and the old German woodcut . Berlin 1951
↑ cf. F. Hieronymus: Upper Rhine Book Illustration I: Incunable woodcuts from the holdings of the university library (reprint of the 1972 exhibition catalog with additions and corrections). Basel 1983, No. 33, BSB-Ink I-653.
↑ cf. R. Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing (approx. 1470–1510). Waxmann 2007, p. 52.

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Haintz Fool
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	medieval wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1490
DATE OF DEATH	after 1494

[1] F. Winkler: Dürer and the illustrations for the ship of fools. The artist's Basel and Strasbourg works and the old German woodcut . Berlin 1951

[2] . F. Hieronymus: Upper Rhine Book Illustration I: Incunable woodcuts from the holdings of the university library (reprint of the 1972 exhibition catalog with additions and corrections). Basel 1983, No. 33, BSB-Ink I-653.

[3] . R. Günthart: German-language literature in early Basel book printing (approx. 1470–1510). Waxmann 2007, p. 52.