Christwurz (Hellebore) from Herbarium (Kräuterbuch), plate 96 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century
1532, assembled into portfolio 1937
Medium
Hand-colored woodcut on paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.2 × 11 cm (5 5/8 × 4 3/8 in.); Image/text: 24.1 × 14.9 cm (9 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 19.7 cm (11 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
woodcut
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132241
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hans Weiditz, II
**Hans Weiditz the Younger (Hans Weiditz II, also known as the Petrarch Master)** was a leading German Renaissance woodcut designer active in the early sixteenth century. Born around 1495 in Freiburg im Breisgau, he came from an artistic family; his father, Hans Weiditz the Elder, was a sculptor who worked on projects such as the Dreikönigsaltar in Freiburg Cathedral, and his brother Christoph Wei...