Artist

Hans Weiditz

Portrait of Hans Weiditz

German Renaissance, 1495–1536

Hans Weiditz was a German Renaissance Renaissance artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Hans Weiditz was born in Strasbourg.

Hans Weiditz the Younger, Hans Weiditz der Jüngere, Hans Weiditz II, was a German Renaissance artist, also known as The Petrarch Master for his woodcuts illustrating Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, or Remedies for Both Good and Bad Fortune, or Phisicke Against Fortune. He is best known today for his very lively scenes and caricatures of working life and people, many created to illustrate the abstract philosophical maxims of Cicero and Petrarch.

Collections represented

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