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Jost Amman

Also known as: Jost Amman; primary name: Amman, Jost; other name: Ammon, Jost
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; Swiss; German; Male
Life dates: 1539-1591
Biography: Jos, Jobst or Joss. Painter, draughtsman, designer of woodcuts and etcher. 1539 Zurich. Died in Nuremberg in 1591 where he had settled in 1561, taking the place of Virgil Solis (d.1562). Became the chief designer for Sigmund Feierabend's publications in Frankfurt. Family name recorded in a book of coats of arms of members of the council of Nuremberg, 1610 (1848,0708.331).
Bibliography: Andresen I pp.99ff O'Dell, Ilse; 'Jost Amman and the Album Amicorum - Drawing after Prints in Autograph Albums', in: Print Quarterly, IX, 1992, I. T. Rabb, 'A Sixteenth-Century Book of Trades', with translation and introduction, Palo Alto, 2009. New Hollstein (German), 13 vols.

531 related objects

book; print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1972,U.105.1-131 |
Producer name: Published by:Sigmund FeierabendPublished by:Simon Hüter |
Production date: 1566 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

book; print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1972,U.483-484 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Hieronymus Feyerabend |
Production date: 1571 1573 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

book; print; illustrated book

Museum number: 1870,1008.1941.1-13 |
Producer name: Published by:Sigismund FeyerabendPrinted by:Johann Feyerabend |
Production date: 1584 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

book of prints; print; drawing; illustrated book

Museum number: 2AA+,a.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1572 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

drawing; album

Museum number: 1899,0120.75 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1563

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0714.146 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1997,0712.32 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1570-1580

drawing; album

Museum number: 1899,0120.38 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Circle/School of:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0802.1 |
Producer name: Manner/Style of:Jost AmmanFormerly attributed to:Henry Fuseli |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing; album

Museum number: 1899,0120.45 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing; album

Museum number: 1899,0120.32 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1997,0712.90 |
Producer name: Circle/School of:Jost AmmanFormerly attributed to:Étienne Delaune |
Production date: 1564-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1850,0713.12 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Jost AmmanFormerly attributed to:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1897,0113.1 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1562

drawing

Museum number: 1949,0411.105 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1586

drawing

Museum number: 1886,0706.1 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Drawn by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

drawing

Museum number: 1895,0915.997 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Hans BockFormerly attributed to:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1567

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1894,0417.549 |
Producer name: Print made by:Virgil SolisPrint made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1867,1012.663 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1580 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1851,0802.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1585 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1897,1213.698.1-121 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1586 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1894,0417.548 |
Producer name: Published by:Georg RabePublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1567 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1850,0309.24.1-178 |
Producer name: Print made by:Virgil SolisPrint made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1563 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1858,0626.191.1-61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Virgil SolisPrint made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1576 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

plaquette

Museum number: 1937,0210.1 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 16thC(late) |
Production place: Made in:Germany

print

Museum number: 1908,0208.15-127 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1579

print

Museum number: 1870,0625.18 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:Jost AmmanAttributed to:Hans Asper |
Production date: 1562

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1982,U.2653 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1591

print; drawing; album

Title: Wapen Boeck /1637 |
Museum number: 1908,0208.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrint made by:Hans Rudolf Manuel |
Production date: 1549-1600

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.13 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.6 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: The Four Seasons |
Museum number: 1909,0612.138-141 |
Producer name: Print made by:Balthasar JenichenAfter:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1569

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1845,0809.1604 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1845,0809.1599 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print

Museum number: 1905,1103.7 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1900

print

Title: Celebrated Women of the Old Testament |
Museum number: 1895,0617.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Stefan Herman |
Production date: 1568-1596 |
Production place: Published in:Ansbach

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1897,1231.20 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.71 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; title-page

Museum number: 1900,1019.48 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1569 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.81 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1872,0511.1201 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print

Museum number: 1875,0313.56 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Wenzel Jamnitzer |
Production date: 1571 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.55 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Illustrations to Fronsperger's 'Kriegsbuch' |
Museum number: 1853,0611.325 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Martin Lechler |
Production date: 1572 1573 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.97 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.79 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; title-page

Title: Illustrations to Jamnitzer's 'Perspectiva' |
Museum number: 1904,1022.1 |
Producer name: After:Wenzel JamnitzerPublished by:Wenzel Jamnitzer |
Production date: 1568 |
Production place: Printed in:Nuremberg

print

Title: Hunting Scenes |
Museum number: 1922,0410.212 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Stefan Herman |
Production date: 1568-1596 |
Production place: Published in:Ansbach

print; title-page

Museum number: 1900,1019.50 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Georg Rab |
Production date: 1571 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; title-page

Title: Illustrations to Jamnitzer's 'Perspectiva' |
Museum number: 1904,1022.2 |
Producer name: After:Wenzel JamnitzerPublished by:Wenzel Jamnitzer |
Production date: 1568 |
Production place: Printed in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Kunstbüchlein Illustrations |
Museum number: E,7.493 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1578 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print

Museum number: 1914,0209.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Wenzel Jamnitzer |
Production date: 1571 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print

Title: Warriors in antique costumes |
Museum number: 1872,0810.160 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Stefan Herman |
Production date: 1590 |
Production place: Published in:Ansbach

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.38 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1897,1231.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.30 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Illustrations to Fronsperger's 'Kriegsbuch' |
Museum number: 1853,0611.323 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Martin Lechler |
Production date: 1573 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1897,1231.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.56 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Kunstbüchlein Illustrations |
Museum number: 1872,0511.1215 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1578 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.68 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print

Title: Celebrated Women of the Old Testament |
Museum number: 1895,0617.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Stefan Herman |
Production date: 1568-1596 |
Production place: Published in:Ansbach

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.94 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.34 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Illustrations to Chasseneuz's 'Catalogus Gloriae Mundi' |
Museum number: 1855,0310.127 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Georg Rab |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Illustrations to Chasseneuz's 'Catalogus Gloriae Mundi' |
Museum number: 1875,0710.187 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Georg Rab |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Illustrations to Livy's 'History of Rome' |
Museum number: 1922,0610.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1568 |
Production place: Printed in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1872,0511.1102 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1565 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1897,1231.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Kunstbüchlein Illustrations |
Museum number: E,7.505 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPublished by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1578 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.42 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1862,1108.84 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583 |
Production place: Published in:Nuremberg

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1982,U.3299 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanPrinted by:Sigmund Feierabend |
Production date: 1564 |
Production place: Published in:Frankfurt am Main

print

Museum number: 1927,0611.2 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Formerly attributed to:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.1969 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Balthasar JenichenFormerly attributed to:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1574

print

Museum number: 1870,0625.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Theodor de BryAfter:Hans Weigel |
Production date: 1580-1600

print

Museum number: 1875,0710.781 |
Producer name: Formerly attributed to:Wenceslaus HollarManner/Style of:Jost Amman

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1845,0809.1602 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1874,0711.1307 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.12 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.15 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: 'Hans Sachs' |
Museum number: O,5.71 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanAfter:Andreas Herneyssen |
Production date: 1576

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.16 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1870,0625.10 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1600

print

Title: Effigies Gasparis de Coligna ... Amiralii Franciae |
Museum number: R,6.45 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1573

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1952,0405.209 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1972,U.1154 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1591

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1972,U.1155 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1591

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1929,0416.16 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1565

print; broadside

Museum number: 1927,0614.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanBlock cut by:Hans Weigel |
Production date: 1573

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1972,U.1151 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1589

print

Museum number: 1846,0509.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:Balthasar JenichenAfter:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1560-1621

print; book-illustration

Title: Dukes of Bavaria |
Museum number: 1922,0410.211 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1583

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,1208.344 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1550-1650

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1972,U.1157 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1555-1591

print

Title: Effigies Gasparis de Coligna ... Amiralii Franciae |
Museum number: 1841,0612.42 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1573

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1845,0809.1597 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print

Title: The fencers |
Museum number: 1871,1209.422 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 After:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1594-1620

print

Title: The Months with Signs of the Zodiac |
Museum number: 1845,0809.1596 |
Producer name: BIOG17268 Print made by:Jost Amman |
Production date: 1554-1591

print

Title: 'Hans Sachs' |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2776 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jost AmmanAfter:Andreas Herneyssen |
Production date: 1576

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