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Sigmund Feyerabend (1528– 22 April 1590) was a
bookseller
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and publisher at
Frankfort. To him are attributed the
woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...
s from the designs of
Virgil Solis
Virgil Solis or Virgilius Solis (1514 – 1 August 1562), a member of a prolific family of artists, was a German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut who worked in his native city of Nuremberg.
Biography
His prints w ...
in a German Bible printed at Frankfort in 1561, and the portraits of the
Doges of Venice
The Doge of Venice ( ; vec, Doxe de Venexia ; it, Doge di Venezia ; all derived from Latin ', "military leader"), sometimes translated as Duke (compare the Italian '), was the chief magistrate and leader of the Republic of Venice between 726 a ...
in
Kellner's ''Chronica,'' also printed at Frankfort in 1574. He died in 1590. He signed his cuts with ''SF'' or a
monogram
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. 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).
[Pallmann: Sigmund Feyerabend, sein Leben und seine geschäftlichen Verbindungen; Frankfurt am Main, 1881 p.62 (Archiv für Prankfurts Geschichte und Kunst)]
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1528 births
1590 deaths
German illustrators
German booksellers
German printers
Businesspeople from Heidelberg
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