W. M. ; Mayrpeck / Meierbeck / Meyerspeck / Mayerpeck ;
1505 in Augsburg
1579 after
Freiberg, Saxony
trained in woodcutting, drawing, and painting as pupil of Pellegrino da San Daniello (1xxx-1xxx)
Germany
botanist Pier Andrea Mattioli (1501-1578): Herbar - ginak Bylinár (Prague 1562) & commentary on Dioscurides (1565/71) ; Leonhard Thurneisser: Historia sive descriptio plantarum omnium (Berlin 1578) ;
Emperor Ferdinand I ;
draughtsman ->Giorgio Liberale of Undine ; Joachim Sovy on the Parentalia - Ferdinande caesari -persoluta (Vienna 1566) ;
botanical woodcut, copperplate engraving, etching, drawing, painting, and xylography
AKL ; ThB 23 1929: 183 ; W. Blunt & S. Raphael: Illustrated Herbal 1979: 133 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Lucia T. Tomasi & G. A. Hirschauer: Flowering of Florence. Botanical Art for the Medici (Washington 2002: 29) ; Bruce T. Moran in Matteo Valleriani (ed.): The Structures of Practical Knowledge (Cham 2017: 404-8) ; Becker 2015: 39 ;
Active in Zwickau from 1525, in Freiberg from 1550, also in Berlin and in Nuremberg / Nürnberg as illustrator and book printer.
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