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Last Name Amman / also spelled incorrectly Amann or Ammann

Given Name Jost / Jobst

alt. Names J. A. ; Jos / Jobst / Ammon / monograms IA , IAG and IAGVZ ;

Marriage 1: Barbara (15xx-1xxx) in 1574 ; 2: Elisabeth, née Schwarz (15xx-1xxx) in 1586

Children 2 sons and 2 daughters

Year born 1539 in Zurich

Year died 1591

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation professor of Classics and Logic Johann Jakob Amman (1xxx-1xxx), member of the dome chapter

Relatives Elisabeth Egger (1xxx-1xxx) (mother) ; goldsmith Josua Amman (1xxx-1xxx) (brother) ;

Education trained as a glas painter ; learned xylography and etching from Virgil Solis (1xxx-1xxx) ;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Julius Spital Würzburg; Aurelius Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus): Der grosse Wundartzney das Erst Buch (1535); ->Wenzel Jamnitzer: Perspectiva corporum regularium (Nuremberg 1567/68); Jacob Ruffen: Hebammen Buch, Ffm 1580; alchemist & physician Leonhard Thurneiser (1531-1596): Historia und Beschreibung influentischer, elementischer u. natürlicher Wirkungen, Berlin 1578; Historia sive descriptio plantarum omnius, ibid.; J.A. also engraved Wentzels "Messcheibe".

Patronage

Collaborators Virgil Solis ; publisher Sigmund Feyerabend ; Ludwig Ringler ; ->Hans Bocksberger ; -> Hermann Ring ;

Techniques anatomical and medical drawing, painting, engraving, and xylography

Sample(s) http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/12830/19/cache.off ;

Archival sources Stadtbibliothek Munich ;

Published sources AKL 3 1992: 246 ; ThB 1 1907: 410 ; Choulant 1858: 91 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Ehring 1989: 42f. ; J. Büttner & B. T. Moran in Valleriani (2017): 120 & 394 ; Falk 2004: 211 & 222 ; Paul Leeman-van Elck: Der Buchschmuck in Konrad Gessners naturgeschichtlichen Werken (Bern 1935) & Der Schweizer Sammler und Familienforscher 8 (1934): 180-5, 212-8, 246-53, 290-8, esp. 294 ; Ilse O'Dell: Jost Amman and the "Album Amicorum" Drawings after Prints in Autograph Albums, Print Quarterly 9, 1 (1992): 31-6 ;

other Further Place of Activity: Switzerland.

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