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Christoph Weiditz

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Selfportrait of Christoph Weiditz, January 1523

Christoph Weiditz (1498, Strasbourg or Freiburg im Breisgau – 1559, Augsburg) was a German painter, medalist, sculptor and goldsmith. His artistic development goes from a naïve-German record of the Renaissance influences to a clever mannerism. Christoph Weiditz is one of the four most important German medalists of the Renaissance, alongside Hans Schwarz, Friedrich Hagenauer and Matthes Gebel.[citation needed]

Life

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He was the brother of Hans Weiditz, the Younger (1493–1537), a famous woodcut artist.

Between 1528 and 1529 he stayed in Spain and made drawings of the folk costumes the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula.[1][2]

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Bibliography

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  • Christoph Weiditz, Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance. All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch". Nachdruck der Ausgabe Berlin 1927. Dover Publications, New York NY 1994, ISBN 0-486-27975-8.
  • Theodor Hampe (dir.), Das Trachtenbuch des Weiditz von seinen Reisen nach Spanien (1529) und den Niederlanden (1531/32), 1927. Réimpression : , New York NY, Dover Publications, 1994 ISBN 0-486-27975-8 (Google Books, extraits). (in German)
  • Andrea McKenzie Satterfield, The assimilation of the marvelous other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an ethnographic document (full text).

References

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  1. ^ Classen, Albrecht (2004). "Spain and Germany in the Late Middle Ages: Christoph Weiditz Paints Spain (1529) A German Artist Traveler Discovers the Spanish Peninsula". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 105 (4). Modern Language Society: 395–406. JSTOR 43343970.
  2. ^ Satterfield, Andrea McKenzie (12 April 2007). Szépe, Helena K.; Benadusi, Giovanna; Fraser, Elisabeth (eds.). "The Assimilation Of The Marvelous Other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document". College of Visual and Performing Arts. University of South Florida. Retrieved 19 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
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