Portrait of Wenzel Jamnitzer in his Study
Jost Amman
1572/75
Medium
Engraving in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.7 × 25.3 cm (6 5/8 × 10 in.); Plate: 17.5 × 25.8 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Sheet: 18.7 × 27.5 cm (7 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
228382
About the Artist
Jost Amman · 1539–1591
Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss-born woodcut designer, engraver, and illustrator who became one of the most prolific and influential graphic artists of sixteenth-century Germany, producing an output of extraordinary range and technical virtuosity that shaped the visual culture of the later Reformation era. Born in Zurich, Amman moved to Nuremberg around 1560, the city that had been the center o...