Discover illuminator, etcher, engraver (printmaker) Jost Ammann (1539-1591)

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: Amman, Jobst (1539-1591)
Amman, Jos (1539-1591)
Amman, Jost (1539-1591)
Ammon, Jost (1539-1591)

Qualifications: illuminator, etcher, engraver (printmaker), woodcarver, illustrator, designer, painter, watercolorist, glass painter, draftsperson
Ammann also designed glass ornaments

Nationality/school: Swiss, German

Born: Zürich (city) 1539-06/1539-06-13
baptized 13 June 1539 in the Großmünster (Saur 1992)

Deceased: Nuremberg 1591-03/1591-03-17
buried 17 March 1591 (Saur 1992)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of the third marriage of Johann Jakob, choirmaster and professor of rhetoric, logic and ancient languages (married 24 November 1574) and Barbara (born 1 June 1586), widow of the goldsmith Wilhelm Wilcke: they had two sons and two daughters

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Feyerabend, Sigmund

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Zürich (stad) 1554 - 1577
c. 1554; although he had been working in Nuremberg from 1561, Ammann retained his civil rights from the city of Zurich until 1577: In 1575 he sold his house in Zurich, 1577 laid off his Zurich citizenship (Saur 1992)
Schaffhausen (plaats) 1559
In 1559 he probably came to Schaffhausen, as a drawing of the Bruderhaus and the chapel in Stein near Schaffhausen (Würzburg, UB) seems to indicate.
Basel (Zwitserland) 1559 - 1560
apprentice of glass painter Ludwig Ringler (ca. 1535-1605)
Neurenberg 1561 - 1591
apprentice in the studio of Virgilius Solis (I), which he also succeeded after his death in 1562; on 14 June 1577 the Nuremberg council granted him citizenship; the entry in the Bürgerbuch took place on 20 June 1577
Frankfurt am Main (stad) 1583
Heidelberg 1583
Würzburg 1585 - 1587

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Ringler, Ludwig
Solis, Virgilius (I)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Pleginck, Martin

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: allegory, animal painting (genre), figure study (main subject), figure, genre, hunting scene, history (genre), landscape (genre), military genre, mythology, ornaments, portrait, Christian religious scene, topography, battle

Product: design for jewelry and ornamental metalwork, ornament design

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 11 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Brun 1905-1917 , vol. 1, p. 28-31 (as: Amman, Jos (Jost))
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 1 (1907), p. 410-413 (as: Amman, Jobst (Jost, Jos))
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 7 (as: Amman, Jost)
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 1, p. 75 (as: Amman, Jos ou Jobst)
Saur 1992- , vol. 3 (1992), p. 246ff.
Hall Kirch/Münch/Stewart 2019 , p. 41-51, esp. p. 45-48 (B. U. Münch, 'Don't judge a book by its cover - Feyerabend's Figuren [sic] between religious faith, artist's book and pre-modern business plan')
Hall Kirch/Münch/Stewart 2019 , p. 52-65 (G. Selig, ' Moretus' punch boxes - woodcuts by Jost Amman in Antwerp')

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BD/0980 - BUI/Grafiek: Coll. PKL, onder Duitsland & onder Prentkunst - Alfabetisch

Archive location: fichescollectie Cornelis Hofstede de Groot

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Creation date: 1991-11-20; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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