Christoph Weiditz Explained

Christoph Weiditz (1498, Strasbourg or Freiburg im Breisgau – 1559, Augsburg) was a German painter, medalist, sculptor and goldsmith. His artistic development goes from a naïve-German record of the Renaissance influences to a clever mannerism. Christoph Weiditz is one of the four most important German medalists of the Renaissance, alongside Hans Schwarz, Friedrich Hagenauer and Matthes Gebel.

Life

He was the brother of Hans Weiditz, the Younger (1493–1537), a famous woodcut artist.

Between 1528 and 1529 he stayed in Spain and made drawings of the folk costumes the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula.^{[1] [2]}

Bibliography

• Christoph Weiditz, Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance. All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch". Nachdruck der Ausgabe Berlin 1927. Dover Publications, New York NY 1994, .
• Theodor Hampe (dir.), Das Trachtenbuch des Weiditz von seinen Reisen nach Spanien (1529) und den Niederlanden (1531/32), 1927. Réimpression :, New York NY, Dover Publications, 1994 (Google Books, extraits).
• Andrea McKenzie Satterfield, The assimilation of the marvelous other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an ethnographic document (full text).

External links

• Christoph Weiditz in the Victoria and Albert Museum
• wissen-digital
• Basque clothes of the 16th century
• Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1530/1540) in the German National Museum

Notes and References

1. Spain and Germany in the Late Middle Ages: Christoph Weiditz Paints Spain (1529) A German Artist Traveler Discovers the Spanish Peninsula . Albrecht . Classen . Neuphilologische Mitteilungen . 105 . 4 . 2004 . 395–406 . Modern Language Society . 43343970.
2. The Assimilation Of The Marvelous Other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document . Andrea McKenzie . Satterfield . College of Visual and Performing Arts . . Helena K. . Szépe . Giovanna . Benadusi . Elisabeth . Fraser . 12 April 2007 . 19 October 2019 .