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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Michael Wolgemut
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Michael Wolgemut

Nuremberg, 1434 - 1519, Nuremberg
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BiographyLC control no.: n 83227359

Personal name heading:
Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519

Variant(s): Wohlgemuth, Michel, 1434-1519
Wohlgemut, Michel, 1434-1519
Wolgemut, Michel, 1434-1519
Wohlgemuth, Michael, 1434-1519
Wohlgemut, Michael, 1434-1519

Found in: Bellm, R. Wolgemuts Skizzenbuch im Berliner
Kupferstichkabinett, 1959 (subj.) t.p. (Michael
Wolgemut)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519)
Webster's biogr. dict., c1943 (Wohlgemuth or Wohlgemut or
Wolgemut, Michel or Michael; b. 1434, d. 1519; German
painter and designer of wood engraving; teacher of
Albrecht Dürer)

Wolgemut, Michael (German painter and printmaker, 1434/1437-1519)

Note: Wolgemut ran a large workshop that produced altarpieces, portraits, and designs for glass paintings in Nuremberg in the late 15th-century. He also is noted for innovations in the art of the woodcut.

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Last Updated8/7/24