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Niklaus Manuel (or Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, 1484? - 1530) was mainly active in Berne and is regarded as one of the foremost Swiss Renaissance artists. Unusually versatile - he was also active as a poet, politician, religious reformer and soldier - he left an exceptional oeuvre characterized by inventive compositions and a decorative-calligraphic graphic style. His best-known woodcuts - the series illustrating the Wise and Foolish Virgins - were conceived as autonomous prints; dated 1518, they are his only signed work. Also of interest are his countless small, miniature-like woodcuts for book illustrations that feature a wealth of carefully-detailed lively figures and were repeatedly, sometimes posthumously, used in books published at Basle. Unlike his son, Hans Rudolf Manuel (or Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, 1525-1571), Niklaus executed only a small number of woodcuts, focusing instead on paintings and drawings. Although he remained in Berne he produced countless woodcuts for books published by printers resident in . e produced countless woodcuts for books published by printers resident in Basle, among them Johannes Oporin, Heinrich Petri and Johannes Froben; Niklaus thus helped to fill the gap left by Hans Holbein’s permanent move to England in 1532 and Conrad Schnitt’s death in 1541.Hans Rudolf Manuel’s best-known prints are his topographical views for Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographie (Petri 1550), and the woodcuts for Rudolf Agricola’s De Metallica (Froben 1556). In addition to book illustrations he also produced a number of mostly large-scale autonomous woodcuts, some of which are based on works by his father. These compositions document the eclectic nature of his work; until now his impressive graphic oeuvre had not received the art-historical attention it deserves, being mined primarily as a source for cultural and historical studies. This book, published in the series “New Hollstein German”, hopes to remedy this.

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