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mheu, Historical Museum of the Urban Environment
The Suicide of Seneca, illustration from "The Nuremberg Chronicle"
Michael Wohlgemut
before 1500
woodcut
Beloit College Library, Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
© Morse Library, Beloit College
View this work in the exhibition Bathing
The artist
Michael Wolgemut, born in Nuremberg in 1434, was a German painter and printmaker. He studied with Hans Pleydenwurff before taking over his busy studio. He made 650 woodcuts as illustrations for The Chronicle of Nuremberg by Hartmann Schedel, an incunabulum or kind of encyclopedia published in German and Latin in 1493.
Albrecht Dürer completed an apprenticeship with him, and painted a portrait of him. He died in 1519.
