Andreas Cratander (born Andreas Hartmann in Strasbourg, ca. 1490; died 1540) [2] was a Swiss printer, publisher, and book seller. Based in Basel, his workshop is estimated to have published at least 150 individual works between 1518 and 1535, predominantly Latin and Greek classics in their original languages. [3]
He studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he graduated with a baccalaureate. After he learned the ropes in the workshop of the printer Matthias Schürcher in Strasbourg. [4] From 1515 he worked for Adam Petri in Basel. [4] In 1518, he opened his own print and from 1522 employed the later reformator of Basel Johannes Oecolampadius. [4] Oecolampadius would also lodge in his house. [2] He published a reprint of the commentaries to the Evangeliums of Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1523 whose cover was adorned with a metalcut of Hans Holbein the Younger, signed by Jacob Faber. [2] Lefèvre was so impressed, he gave Cratander his commentaries to the letters of the New Testament to print. [2]
Hans Baldung, called Hans Baldung Grien,, was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer and whose art belongs to both German Renaissance and Mannerism.
Ambrosius Holbein was a German and later a Swiss artist in painting, drawing, and printmaking. He was the elder brother, by about three years, of Hans Holbein the Younger, but he appears to have died in his mid-twenties, leaving behind only a small body of work.
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.
Thomas Murner, OFM was an Alsatian satirist, poet and translator.
Johannes Oporinus was a humanist printer in Basel.
Johann Amerbach was a celebrated printer in Basel in the 15th century. He was the first printer in Basel to use the Roman type instead of Gothic and Italian and spared no expense in his art.
TheodoreBibliander was a Swiss orientalist, publisher, Protestant reformer and linguist.
Johann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius, was a famous printer, publisher and learned Renaissance humanist in Basel. He was a close friend of Erasmus and cooperated closely with Hans Holbein the Younger. He made Basel one of the world's leading centres of the book trade. He passed his printing business on to his son, Hieronymus, and grandson, Ambrosius Frobenius.
Hieronymus Froben (1501–1563) was a famous pioneering printer in Basel and the eldest son of Johann Froben. He was educated at the University of Basel and traveled widely in Europe.
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, notably by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German states and principalities. There were many advances made in the fields of architecture, the arts, and the sciences. Germany produced two developments that were to dominate the 16th century all over Europe: printing and the Protestant Reformation.
Jacob Faber or Jakob Faber, also known as the "Master IF" from the monogram on his prints, was a formschneider ("block-cutter") of woodcuts and metalcuts, engraver, designer of decorative prints and publisher. Faber was active in the period 1516–1550, in Basel in Switzerland and subsequently in France.
Hieronymus Andreae, or Andreä, or Hieronymus Formschneider, was a German woodblock cutter ("formschneider"), printer, publisher and typographer closely associated with Albrecht Dürer. Andreae's best known achievements include the enormous, 192-block Triumphal Arch woodcut, designed by Dürer for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his design of the characteristic German "blackletter" Fraktur typeface, on which German typefaces were based for several centuries. He was also significant as a printer of music.
Adam Petri was a printer, publisher and bookseller.
Heinrich Vogtherr (the Elder) (1490 in Dillingen an der Donau – 1556 in Vienna) was an artist, printer, poet and medical author of the Reformation period.
Ulrich Hugwald was a Swiss humanist scholar and Reformer.
Wolfgang Lachner was a bookseller and publisher in Basel. He had extensive contacts in Europe and supplied, among others, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Ulrich Zwingli.
Bonifacius Amerbach was a jurist, scholar, an influential humanist and the rector of the University of Basel for several terms.
Portrait of the Artist's Family is a portrait of the family of the painter Hans Holbein the Younger by the artist himself. It depicts Holbein's wife Elsbeth Binzenstock, their son Philipp and their daughter Katharina. Holbein painted it during his stay in Basel after his return from England. It was painted, between 1528 and 1529, on paper and glued on wood.
Johannes Sichardus was a humanist, jurist and law professor at the University of Türbingen. He also edited several editions for printers in Basel.
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