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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.
Gallery
Drawings of Christoph Weiditz from his Trachtenbuch, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
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, ISBN 0-486-27975-8.
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 ISBN 0-486-27975-8 (Google Books, extraits). (in German)
Andrea McKenzie Satterfield, The assimilation of the marvelous other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an ethnographic document (full text).
References
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