Christoph Weiditz (1498, Strasbourg or Freiburg im Breisgau â 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, and .
Life
He was the brother of Hans Weiditz, the Younger (1493âÂÂ1537), 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.
Gallery
Bibliography
- 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, .
- 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 (Google Books, extraits).
- Andrea McKenzie Satterfield, The assimilation of the marvelous other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an ethnographic document (full text).
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