Word: sebald
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...century, the greatest artists of the time as Durer and Holbein made designs to be cut in the block, and the cutting was done by the professional woodcutter of the day. A group of German books exhibited includes Durer's Small Passion and Apocalypse, the Luther Bible, with Hans Sebald Beham's woodcuts, and books with illustrations by Baldung, Burgkmair, and Wechtlin. There are some eight books illustrated by Welditz, that very charming the human artist who introduces us to the everyday life of the people as no other artists of the period...
Among the books shown are Durer's "Small Passion" and "Apocalypse," Rolbein's "Dance of Death" and Old Testament, and Luther's Bible, illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Sebald Beham, and the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid...