Origins of European Printmaking:
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public

The Curators

Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and formerly the Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History and the Humanities at Reed College. He completed his doctoral studies in art history at the University of Chicago, and his dissertation research as a fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. Parshall has written and lectured widely on the art of northern Europe and the Renaissance with special emphasis on the history of prints, the early history and organization of collecting, and Renaissance art theory. He co-authored with David Landau The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550 (Yale University Press, 1994), recipient of the 1995 Mitchell Prize. Previously he organized The Unfinished Print, an exhibition with catalogue also shown at the Frick Collection, New York, and the Städel Institut in Frankfurt.

Rainer Schoch is keeper of the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. He studied the history of art at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, where he presented his dissertation on “The State-Portrait in the 19th Century” (Prestel Verlag, in 1975). Specializing in prints and drawings, he became a curator at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in 1975 and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg in 1981. In his exhibitions, catalogues and publications he has focused on early printmaking (Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk, 3 vols., Munich 2001–2004, with Matthias Mende and Anna Scherbaum), German neo-classicist and romantic drawings, and political imagery (Freiheit –Gleichheit – Brüderlichkeit. 200 Jahre Französische Revolution in Deutschland, Nuremberg 1989; 1848 Das Europa der Bilder, Paris/Turin/Nuremberg 1998).

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Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public

Origins of European Printmaking:
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public