Frans Masereel

Frans Masereel

male, deceased (1972)
painter, Fleming, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, etchings, expressionistic, woodcuts
Frans Masereel (Blankenberge, Belgium 1889 - France 1972) was a Flemish painter and one of the greatest woodcut artists of the twentieth century....
Irving Amen

Irving Amen

male, 91 years old
Jewish, woodcuts, gilgamesh, lithograph, Pratt Institute, printmaker
Irving Amen (born 1918 in New York City) is known as a master printmaker. He has produced thousands of woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and...
Fritz Kredel

Fritz Kredel

male, deceased (1973)
Calligrapher, offenbach, graphic designer, Yale University, woodcut, cooper union…woodcuts
Fritz Kredel (February 8, 1900- June 12, 1973) was a German graphic designer who was born in Michelstadt, but later emigrated to America. In his...
Urs Graf

Urs Graf

male, deceased (1529)
painter, Swiss, attempted murder, Mercenary, zurich, artist…woodcuts
Urs Graf (born 1485 in Solothurn, Switzerland; died after 1529) was a Swiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (of woodcuts, etchings and...
Alex Garland

Alex Garland

male, 39 years old
28 Weeks Later, sunshine, woodcuts, 28 Days Later, University College School, The Tesseract
Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist and screenwriter. Garland is the son of political cartoonist Nick Garland. He attended University...
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

male, deceased (1944)
dutch, painter, Nazi concentration camp victim, auschwitz, graphic artist, M.C. Escher…woodcuts
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6 1868 - Auschwitz, ca. November 2, 1944) was Dutch painter and graphic artist, who died during the...
Lucas Cranach The Younger

Lucas Cranach The Younger

male, deceased (1586)
Lutheran, painter, German, Renaissance painter, artist, Renaissance…woodcuts
Lucas Cranach the Younger (October 4, 1515 - January 25, 1586) was a German Renaissance artist, known for his woodcuts and paintings. He was a son...
Joachim Meyer

Joachim Meyer

male
großes Messer, Gründtliche Beschreibung der kunst des Fechten, Fundamental Descriptions of the Art of Fencing, Johannes Lichtenauer, Grosses messer, pole weapon…woodcuts
Joachim Meyer was the author of a 1570 fechtbuch "Gründtliche Beschreibung der kunst des Fechten" (in English, "Fundamental Descriptions of the A...
Claire Pratt

Claire Pratt

female, deceased (1995)
Columbia University, poet, University of Toronto alumni, oxford university press, graphic designer, university of toronto…woodcuts
Mildred Claire Pratt, 1921-1995, was a Canadian artist, poet and editor who published as Claire Pratt. She was the daughter of Viola Whitney (a...
James Gordon Bennett Sr.

James Gordon Bennett Sr.

male, deceased (1872)
Newmill, from Moray, immigrant to the United States, United States president, bookkeeping, spanish language…woodcuts
James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 - 1 June 1872), was the founder, editor and publisher of the "New York Herald" and a major figure in the...