Master of the Ulmer Terence

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Woodcuts for the Swabian Chronicle by Thomas Lirer, Ulm 1486

As a master of Ulmer Terence is late medieval artist calls, the woodcuts for an output of a work of ancient writer Terence has designed. The book, published in 1486, is known as the Ulmer Terenz and gives the not known woodcut artist the emergency name . There is a German translation of Eunuchus that the Ulm mayor and humanist Hans Neidhardt made and in Ulm at Konrad Dinckmut had given the impression. The master of Ulmer Terence is said to have created the woodcuts for Thomas Lirer's Swabian Chronicle , a collection of legends and stories , almost at the same time .

The master's woodcuts are an important example of book illustration from the early days of book printing . Possibly the master of the Ulmer Terence is identical with the master of the Augustinian altar , the painter unknown by name who created the main part of the pictures of an altar of the Nuremberg Augustinian church around 1487.

literature

  • Paul Kristeller: Copper engraving and woodcut over four centuries . Berlin 1911
  • Albert Schramm : The picture decoration of the early prints - Vol. 6 The prints of Konrad Dinckmut in Ulm . Leipzig 1923 (edition reprint Stuttgart 1983)
  • Gerhard Betz: The master of Ulmer Terence: a contribution to the history of book illustration in the early printing period in Ulm . Cologne 1958
  • Eunuchus. The Ulmer Terenz edition . Facsimile of the original edition 1486. ​​Dietikon 1970
  • Peter Amelung: Konrad Dinckmut, the printer of Ulmer Terenz. Commentary on the facsimile print 1970 Dietikon-Zurich 1972
  • Peter Amelung: Humanists as employees of the printer (using the example of early printing in Ulm) . In: Fritz Krafft, Dieter Wuttke (Hrsg.): The relationship of the humanists to the book. Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Boppard u. a. 1977, pp. 129-144
  • Jörn Günther Rare Books (Ed.): Catalog No. 7. A Choice of Early Printed Books (1454–1577) . Stalden 2002
  • Thomas Lirer: Swabian Chronicle. Facsimile of the original edition. Commented by Peter Amelung. Leipzig 2005
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Ulmer Terence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval wood cutter in Ulm
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century