Master with cancer

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As a champion with cancer one is engraver called, probably in the 1530s Netherlands worked. The engravings attributed to him there is often a crab or cancer .

It is believed that he could be Francois Crabetli or Frans Crabbe from Mechelen. Stylistically, the master with the cancer is close to the way Quentin Matsys worked , and it is believed to be able to recognize an influence of Lucas van Leyden , for example in one of his engravings with the depiction of the beheading of John the Baptist.

literature

  • Master with cancer . In: Joseph Heller: Monogram Lexicon, containing the known, dubious and unknown characters, as well as the abbreviations of the names of the draftsmen, painters, ... etc with short messages about the same . Bamberg 1831
  • Master with cancer . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . Eighth volume. Munich 1839
  • AM Hind: A Short History Of Enqravinq & Etching . London 1908, p. 90
  • Max J. Friedländer: Nicolas Hogenberg and Frans Crabbe the painters of Mechelen . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 42nd volume, (1921), pp. 161–168
  • Nora Koldehoff, Stefan Koldehoff: Who did van Gogh give his ear to? Everything you don't know about art . Frankfurt Am Main 2007, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Master with cancer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century