chlotthauer is an extremely skilled craftsman — it's almost impossible to tell his lithographs from
Holbein's original woodcuts.
chlotthauer is an extremely skilled craftsman — it's almost impossible to tell his lithographs from
Holbein's original woodcuts.
One of the few differences is that Schlotthauer likes to equip Death with white, staring eyeballs. Here is Death at the physician:
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Death at the nun:
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And Death at the senator:
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Another difference is that Schlotthauer has expurgated the fool's private parts:
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These small differences show up again when Léon Curmer copies Schlotthauer's lithographs.
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Artists/publishers:
Hans Holbein (1526) - so-called proofs
Hans Holbein (1538) - the originals
Spurious editions (1530-1654)
Heinrich Aldegrever (1541)
Heinrich Vogtherr (1544)
Vincenzo Valgrisi (1545)
Arnold Birckmann (1555)
Juan de Icíar (1555)
Valentin Wagner (1557)
Jiří Melantrich (1563)
Georg Scharffenberg (1576)
Leonhart Straub (1581)
David Chytraeus (1590)
Peter Paul Rubens (ca. 1590)
Fabio Glissenti (1596)
Eberhard Kieser (1617)
Rudolf and Conrad Meyer (1650)
Wenceslaus Hollar (1651)
De doodt vermaskert (1654)
Thomas Neale (1657)
Johann Weichard von Valvasor (1682)
Erbaulicher Sterb-Spiegel (1704)
Salomon van Rusting (1707)
T. Nieuhoff Piccard (1720)
Christian de Mechel (1780)
David Deuchar (1788)
John Bewick (1789)
Alexander Anderson (1810)
Wenceslaus Hollar (1816)
"Mr. Bewick" (1825)
Ludwig Bechstein (1831)
→ Joseph Schlotthauer (1832) ←
Francis Douce (1833)
Carl Helmuth (1836)
Francis Douce (1858, 2. edition)
Henri Léon Curmer (1858)
Tindall Wildridge (1887)
Thy Grief (2022)
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Dances of death
Holbein's dance of death
Schlotthauer