Sigmund Feyerabend
Sigmund Feyerabend (1528– 22 April 1590) was a bookseller and publisher in Frankfort. To him are attributed the woodcuts from the designs of Virgil Solis in a German Bible printed at Frankfort in 1561, and the portraits of the Doges of Venice in Kellner's Chronica, also printed at Frankfort in 1574. He died in 1590.
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Sigmund Feyerabend
Nachdruck eines frühneuzeitlichen Stichs in einem Buch von 1911, http: layout=vol0/part0/copy0 file=0011 · Public domain
- Name
- Sigmund Feyerabend
- Born
- 1528
- Birthplace
- Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
- Died
- 22 April 1590
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Known for
- Books
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- printer · publisher · illustrator · bookseller · xylographer
- Languages
- German · Latin
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Sigmund Feyerabend (1528– 22 April 1590) was a bookseller and publisher in Frankfort. To him are attributed the woodcuts from the designs of Virgil Solis in a German Bible printed at Frankfort in 1561, and the portraits of the Doges of Venice in Kellner's Chronica, also printed at Frankfort in 1574. He died in 1590.
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He signed his cuts with SF or a monogram. Several of his relations also were wood-engravers, and one of them, M. Feyerabend, who worked about 1578, executed several figures after Melchior Lorch. His business was highly successful, but his son-in-law, Kuno Wiederhold, married to Katharina Maria Feyerabend, incurred heavy debts, leaving little for the younger, minor son, Karl Sigmund Feyerabend (+ 15 Jul 1609).
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• Name — Sigmund Feyerabend • Born — 1528 • Birthplace — Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire • Died — 22 April 1590 • Place of death — Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire • Movement — Northern Renaissance • Known for — Books • Illustration — Printers mark from Feyerabend, 1568 • Illustration — Title page of the 1590 edition of the Heldenbuch, illustrated by Virgil Solis and Jost Amman
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Sigmund Feyerabend was born at Heidelberg and sources differ (the article records Frankfurt).
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Sigmund Feyerabend died at Frankfurt.
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