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(2) Hans Weiditz (ii)
(b ?Freiburg im Breisgau, before 1500; d Strasbourg, c. 1536). Woodcut designer, probably the son of (1) Hans Weiditz (i). Between 1530 and 1534 he is documented as a member of the Strasbourg guild ‘zur Stelze’, which included metalworkers, glaziers, painters and printers. The only works that can be certainly attributed to him are the woodcuts to the Herbarum vivae eicones (pubd Schott, Strasbourg, 1530–36; Ger. edn as Contrafaytes Kräuterbuch, 1532) by Otto Brunfels (1488–1534). Some preparatory watercolour drawings for these woodcuts, surviving in the Platter-Herbarium (Berne, Botan. Inst. & Gtn; see fig.), are astonishing in their precision and fidelity to nature, including such details as wilted leaves and damage by insects. Together with the woodcuts they were an important step in the foundation of botany as a scientific discipline.
Part of the Weiditz family
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