Michael Wolgemut

LC 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.