Jost Amman - The Market

The Market

Jost Amman's original woodcut, The Market is printed upon 16th Century hand-made, laid paper and with large margins as published in 1580. This woodcut shows such detail and with so much accuracy that Amman must have drawn them from life. It is a fine, original example of the art created by the German artist, Jost Amman.

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Title:	The Market
Artist:	Amman, Jost (Zurich, 1539 - Nuremberg, 1591)
Date:	1580
Medium:	Original Woodcut
Note:	Jost Amman: A celebrated German printmaker in the tradition of Durer, Aldegrever and others, surprisingly little is known of the actual life of Jost Amman. The son of a distinguished, Swiss professor of logic, rhetoric, Latin and Greek, Amman was born in Zurich in 1561 and it is believed he studied in Basil. He moved to Nuremberg (then one of the greatest cities in the world) in 1561 and may have worked designing woodcuts with Virgil Solis. At any rate, when Solis died in the plague of the following year, Jost Amman took his place as the chief designer of woodcuts for Nuremberg and Frankfurt publishers.
	During the following years, Jost Amman created woodcuts for some of the greatest illustrated books of his time. One may find his art in such diverse titles as the Bible, Livy's History of Rome, Flavius's Jewish War, Reynard the Fox, the Kunstbuchlin, (1578), books on hunting, warfare, cooking and women's fashion.
	Unlike those before him, Jost Amman did not seek grandiose statements in his art. Instead, he was the first to leave us a complete visual record of the life of the people -- their habits, customs, manners of dressing and ways of working. For this reason alone, Amman's woodcuts are tremendously valuable. But even a brief look at The Market shows us that the details are rendered with so much accuracy that Jost Amman must have drawn them from life. And the boy with the voracious appetite in the lower left corner is his delightful artistic touch from many centuries ago.
Size:	3 1/4 X 4 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon 16th Century hand-made, laid paper and with large margins as published in 1580. It is a fine, early without a trace of deterioration or wear. Altogether this is a superb example of the famous art of Jost Amman.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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