Jost Amman
Illustrations
Antique relief with the representation of a young man killing a bull
The Turkish ambassador on the way for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I to Frankfurt
Passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea
Wedding procession on St. Mark 's Square in Venice , left part
Wedding Procession in St. Mark's Square in Venice , right part
Illustration of Philip Lorniers » Icones Livianae "
John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness
Parable of Lazarus and the rich man
Portrait of Georg Ludwig von Seinsheim
Portrait of Georg von Frundsberg with his son Caspar
Portrait of the Duke Christoph of Württemberg and Teck
Portrait of Jakob Schegk from Schorndorf , doctor of medicine and philosophy
Portrait of Johann Turmair , known as Aventinus
Portrait of Johann Wolfgang Freymann
Portrait of Emperor Maximilian II
Portrait of Markus Fugger at the age of fifty-eight years
Portrait of Leonhard Fronsperger of Ulm
Title page of the woodcut with King David
Tournament of the Emperor Maximilian I.
Comparison Chart : Seven systems for measuring the time
Four ornament panels : Children dance, deer and bear hunting
Coat of arms of Joachim Heller
Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. Amman was born in Zurich, the son of a professor of Classics and Logic. He was himself well-educated. Little of his personal history is known beyond the fact that he moved to Nuremberg in 1560, where he continued to reside until his death in March 1591. He worked initially with Virgil Solis, then a leading producer of book illustrations. His productiveness was very remarkable, as may be gathered from the statement of one of his pupils, that the drawings he made during a period of four years would have filled a hay wagon. A large number of his original drawings are in the Berlin print room. About 1,500 prints are attributed to him. He was one of the last major producers of woodcuts for books, as during his career engravings were gradually taking over that role. Although like most artists for woodcut he normally let a specialist formschneider cut the block to his drawing, he sometimes included both a cutter's knife and a quill pen in his signature on prints, suggesting he sometimes cut his own blocks.
A series of engravings by Amman of the kings of France, with short biographies, appeared in Frankfurt in 1576. He also executed many of the woodcut illustrations for the Bible published at Frankfurt by Sigismund Feierabend, and for a topographical survey of Bavaria by Philipp Apian.[1] Another serial work, the Panoplia Omnium Liberalium Mechanicarum et Seden-tariarum Artium Genera Continens, containing 115 plates, is of great value. Amman's drawing is correct and spirited, and his delineation of the details of costume is minute and accurate. Paintings in oil and on glass are attributed to him, but none have been identified.
Amman died in Nuremberg, Bavaria, aged 51.
References
Amman, Jost. Philipp Apian’s Drawings, Watercolors, and Woodcuts. Accessed May 11, 2015.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amman, Jost". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Kartenspiel. A pack of cards. [Leipzig, Edition Leipzig, 1967.] (A pack of cards reproduced from Amman’s Charta lusoria published in 1588, issued in case together with "Einführung von Erwin Kohlmann".)
Pictorial archive of decorative Renaissance woodcuts: (Kunstbüchl[e]in) / by Jost Amman; with an introduction by Alfred Werner. New York: Dover, [1985] c1968. ISBN 0-486-21987-9
Andresen, Andreas. Jost Amman, 1539-1591; Graphiker und Buchillustrator der Renaissance. Beschreibender Katalog seiner Holzschnitte, Radierungen und der von ihm illustrierten Bücher. Mit einer biographischen Skizze und mit Registern seines Werkes und der Autoren illustrierten Bücher. Amsterdam: G. W. Hissink [1973]. (Reprint of the 1864 ed., published by Danz, Leipzig, which was issued as part of v. 1 of the author’s Der deutsche Peintre-Graveur.) ISBN 90-6025-105-9
Becker, Carl. Jobst Amman, zeichner und formschneider, kupferätzr und stecher. Leipzig: R. Wiegel, 1854.
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