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(4) Christof Weiditz (ii)
(b ?Strasbourg, ?c. 1517; d ?Strasbourg, before 1572). Painter and woodcut designer, son of (3) Hans Weiditz (ii). He took over a printing business with David Kannel in 1537, which he sold in 1539. In 1562 a demand was made for a work produced for Paulus Hector Mair, a councillor of Augsburg, for which Christof Weiditz had received advance payments. In 1565 Christof bought two houses. Authenticated works are his designs for woodcuts (two of which are signed) of 92 knights for Mair’s treatise Bericht und anzeigen aller Herren Geschlecht der lobl. Stadt Augspurg, whose first edition was printed by Weiditz and Kannel in Strasbourg in 1538. A second, expanded edition was printed by M. Kriegstein in Augsburg in 1550.
Part of the Weiditz family
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