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Last Name Vogtherr

Given Name Heinrich

alt. Names H. V. ; Vogtherr the Elder / der Ältere ;

Marriage

Children Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (1513-1568)

Year born 1490 in Dillingen

Year died 1556

Place of death Vienna

Father's occupation

Relatives brothers Georg Vogtherr (1487–1539), priest, & Bartholomäus (149?-1536), eye doctor

Education trained in drawing & painting by Hans Burgkmair (d. Ä.) in Augsburg

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Eucharius Roesslin the Younger (+1553/54), called Rhodion ; anatomical plates for his own Anothomia oder abconterfectung eines Weybs leyb, wie er innwendig gestaltet ist (Augsburg 1538) [this is the first anatomical printed book with flip-up illustrations/ Klappschichten] ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques anatomical and botanical drawing and woodcut ;

Sample(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogtherr_der_%C3%84ltere#/media/Datei:Vogtherr_Turm_der_Grammatik.jpg ;

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogtherr ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Vogtherr_der_%C3%84ltere ;

Published sources Karl Schorbach in ADB 40 (1896): 192–194; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; 12 pp. commentary in the facsimile reprint of Ryff (1541), Basel 1954; Frank Muller: Heinrich Vogtherr, alias Satrapitanus, alias the Master with the Cross, Print Quarterly IV, 3, London 1987: 274–282; Heinrich Vogtherr l´Ancien – Un artiste entre Renaissance et Réforme. Wiesbaden 1997; Christoph Reske:. Die Buchdrucker des 16. u. 17. Jhs. im deutschen Sprachgebiet. Auf der Grundlage des gleichnamigen Werkes von Josef Benzing 2nd ed. 2015: 965f.

other Artist, printer, illustrator, poet, and medical author of the Reformation period.

Further Place of Activity: Austria.

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