Monogrammist

Monogram of the Brunswick monogramist.

Monogrammists are visual artists who cannot be identified by name. They are alternatively designated with an emergency name , which usually includes the person's monogram .

The German-language Wikipedia lists u. a. the following monogrammists:

• Master A, see Master of the Kassel Musicians , Utrecht painter of the first half of the 17th century
• Monogrammist AA, painter of the Danube School, see Master AA
• Monogrammist AD (around 1500 – after 1540), German carver
• Monogrammist AT (around 1515), Austria
• Monogrammist BB , draftsman and copperplate engraver, active in Augsburg from 1500 to 1515, see Master of the Augsburg Painters' Portraits
• Braunschweig monogrammist , Dutch Renaissance painter
• Master IT
• Monogrammist GZ (around 1500 – around 1535), German or Swiss artist
• Master H in A from 1546
• Master HL (maybe Hans Loy from Freiburg)
• Monogrammist IP (around 1490 – after 1530), German carver
• Master LCz
• Monogrammist MS , Bible illustrator, active in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä., Creator of 127 woodcuts (out of a total of 128) for Martin Luther's "Full Bible" printed by Hans Lufft in Wittenberg in 1534 (a second identical edition was published in 1535)
• Master WB

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : The monogramists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who use a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same to designate their works, & c. have served. Taking into account letterpress marks, the stamp of art collectors, the stamp of the old gold and silversmiths, the majolica factories, porcelain manufacturers, etc. News about painters, draftsmen, sculptors, architects, engravers, shape cutters, letter painters, lithographers, stamp cutters, enamellers, goldsmiths, Niello, metal and ivory workers, engravers, armourers, etc. With the rational lists of the works of anonymous masters, whose marks are given, and the reference to the products of well-known artists labeled with monograms or initials ... also an addition ... to the new general artist- Lexicons and supplements to the well-known works by A. Bartsch, Robert-Dumesnil, C. le Blanc, F. Brulliot, J. Heller, etc.
  5 volumes, Georg Franz, Munich 1858–1879; on this General-Index G. Hirth, Munich 1920 ( digitized ).
• Monogrammists . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 371-456 .
• Franz Goldstein: Monogram Lexicon. International directory of monograms by visual artists since 1850. De Gruyter, Berlin 1964.