Portret van Veit Müller

About this artwork

Prent gebruikt voor de publicatie: Cellius, Erhard. Imagines professorum Tubingensium. Tübingen: Erhard Cellius, 1596, p. [86].

Art Historical Context

This 1596 portrait of Veit Müller, created by Jakob Lederlein, forms part of Erhard Cellius’s *Imagines professorum Tubingensium*, a printed collection celebrating the professors of the University of Tübingen. Produced through letterpress printing—a technique that combined movable type with relief illustrations—the image measures just 185 by 103 millimeters, making it well suited for inclusion in a compact scholarly volume. Such publications helped preserve the likenesses of academics for posterity and circulated them among learned circles across Europe. Letterpress printing allowed for the relatively affordable reproduction of portraits at a time when painted images remained rare luxuries. By integrating text and image on the same page, Cellius’s book transformed individual likenesses into a collective record of Tübingen’s intellectual community. Veit Müller’s portrait thus serves both as a personal commemoration and as evidence of the growing importance of print in documenting and honoring academic achievement during the late Renaissance.