. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . rs. Among the group of Swiss and Strasburg artists, whoat this period were cultivating the art of wood-cuttingwith originality and fertility, Christoph Maurer of Zurich(1558—1614), and Abel Stimmer, are noteworthy also as ^^/-/%. ^^^:^J^^^;;J Parallel with the ^^ ? new School, at whosehead stands JostAmman, certainartists were carryingto still further conclu-sions the traditions ofthe old engravers andof the first generationof Little these wereFranz Brun at Stras-burg (working be-tween 1
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . rs. Among the group of Swiss and Strasburg artists, whoat this period were cultivating the art of wood-cuttingwith originality and fertility, Christoph Maurer of Zurich(1558—1614), and Abel Stimmer, are noteworthy also as ^^/-/%. ^^^:^J^^^;;J Parallel with the ^^ ? new School, at whosehead stands JostAmman, certainartists were carryingto still further conclu-sions the traditions ofthe old engravers andof the first generationof Little these wereFranz Brun at Stras-burg (working be-tween 1559 and 1596),and Peter Rodelstadt,Cranachs successorat the royal court ofWeimar. The services ren-dered by engraving and etching to the arts and craftswere not limited to the prints of ornament and patternsdesigned by professional engravers. Burin and needlewere now frequently employed by goldsmiths and crafts-men of every kind who wished to spread their artisticideas, and particularly by architects, by which term mustbe understood not so much working architects as painters. Fig. 61. Jost Amman : The Four Elements(detail). ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 133 and wood-carvers, who imagined themselves to be archi-tectural designers. Foremost among these is VVendelinDietterlein, who in 1593 published his Architectura, with209 coarsely etched but pleasing plates, a pattern-bookfor furniture-makers, joiners, and similar craftsmen. Thebook is full of originality, but the wilful extravagance ofsome of the ornamental designs exercised no favourableinfluence on the development of the later so-called GermanRenaissance. Dietterlein was followed by Guckeisen,Ebelmann, Veit Eck, George Haas, etc. The comparative ease in producing etchings caused thepossibility of illustrated works, occasionally of enormoussize, which served to satisfy the passion for pictures in thesame way as our modern illustrated newspapers. One ofthese is the series of Views of Towns, published from1572 by Georg Braun (or Bruin),
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