The Landsknecht Sourcebook
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Prints, drawings, and museum records · c. 1470–1600

Art & Woodcuts for Landsknecht Research

Dated images of Landsknechte and related military and civilian subjects, organized by artist or workshop.

Entries link directly to museum objects, digitized catalogue pages, or institutional collection records. Swiss Reisläufer, later copies, battle scenes, and civilian dress are labeled so they are not mistaken for direct Landsknecht evidence.

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Albrecht Dürer woodcuts

Explore identified Landsknecht figures and related military scenes, with evidence and attribution notes. Entries retain dates, series, catalogue numbers, attribution cautions, Wikimedia Commons records, original scans, and rights information.

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Artists, printmakers, and block cutters

These are the principal named makers for Landsknecht, mercenary, Tross, and closely related military imagery represented in the Sourcebook. Each entry opens an institutional object, collection biography, or digitized catalogue page.

In sixteenth-century woodcuts, the artist who designed the image and the Formschneider who cut the block could be different people. Many cutters remain unrecorded, so “woodcut by” should not automatically be read as “block cut by.” “Kampfrau” is retained as a modern search term; individual records use the source’s more specific identification, such as wife, woman, sutler, or camp follower.

Direct Landsknecht evidence1471–1528

Albrecht Dürer

Painter, draughtsman, print designer, engraver

Dürer’s engravings, drawings, and woodcut designs established some of the best-known early images of Landsknechte, including soldiers paired with mounted women and with Death. Woodcuts bearing his designs were often cut by specialist Formschneider rather than by Dürer himself.

The Met: Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht
Military and dress context1473–1531

Hans Burgkmair the Elder

Painter and designer of woodcuts

A leading Augsburg artist for Emperor Maximilian I. Burgkmair designed large imperial print projects and military scenes whose infantry, camps, banners, armour, and clothing provide unusually broad visual context for the Landsknecht period.

National Gallery of Art: The Battle of Padua
Mercenary and Tross evidencec. 1485–1527/29

Urs Graf

Goldsmith, draughtsman, printmaker, mercenary

Graf’s first-hand experience as a Swiss mercenary informs vigorous images of soldiers, women, violence, camp society, and moral disorder. His Swiss subjects are comparative Reisläufer evidence unless a record explicitly identifies a German Landsknecht.

National Gallery of Art: Two Mercenaries and a Woman
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1480–c. 1540

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein

Painter and designer of woodcuts

Schäufelein produced numerous standing Landsknechte, standard-bearers, and military figures. His strong silhouettes and carefully described dress make his prints central visual sources; surviving records sometimes identify the block cutter separately.

British Museum: Landsknecht standard-bearer
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1470–1536

Daniel Hopfer the Elder

Armour etcher and printmaker

Hopfer pioneered printed etching in Augsburg after working as an armour decorator. His etched soldier groups—technically not woodcuts—record weapons, postures, dress, and social performance with exceptional breadth.

Art Institute of Chicago: Five German Soldiers
Direct Landsknecht evidence1539–1591

Jost Amman

Draughtsman, etcher, and designer of woodcuts

Working later in the sixteenth century, Amman supplied prolific book and broadside designs. His soldiers, officers, occupations, and illustrations for military books are especially useful for later Landsknecht, camp, and institutional context.

British Museum: Fronsperger’s Kriegsbuch illustrations
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1491–1542

Erhard Schön

Painter and designer of woodcuts

A major Nuremberg print designer whose single figures and marching series include named soldiers, officers, gunners, and Landsknecht formations. Older catalogues sometimes confused his designs with those of Peter Flötner.

Museums of Nuremberg: A Lansquenet Leader
Mercenary and Tross evidenceactive c. 1520–1562

Niklas Stör

Painter and designer of woodcuts

Stör’s long processions and figure sheets record musicians, standards, firearms, two-handed swords, halberds, officers, common troops, and women associated with soldiers. They are particularly valuable for studying the visual organization of the marching community.

Heidelberg: Ein Soldatenzug in Geisberg
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1475/80–1537

Jörg Breu the Elder

Painter and designer of woodcuts

Breu’s Augsburg workshop contributed to imperial books, religious prints, and a large series of standing Landsknechte. Museum records show that some of these designs were cut by Jost de Negker.

British Museum: Landsknecht cleaning his firearm
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1510–1547

Jörg Breu the Younger

Painter and print designer

The younger Breu continued the Augsburg family workshop and designed standing soldier prints. Modern catalogues distinguish several of his Landsknechte from works formerly assigned to his father.

British Museum: Landsknecht seen from behind
Direct Landsknecht evidence1500–1550

Sebald Beham

Painter, engraver, and print designer

One of the Nuremberg ‘Little Masters,’ Beham made compact engravings and woodcut designs of soldiers, peasant festivities, and social disorder. His standing Landsknechte and military musicians are valuable for dress and weapons.

British Museum: Landsknecht holding a spear
Military and dress context1502–1540

Barthel Beham

Painter and engraver

Barthel Beham’s finely engraved standing soldiers belong to the same Nuremberg print culture as Landsknecht figure series. They offer close evidence for weapons, stance, and fashionable military dress even when the museum title uses the broader term foot soldier.

National Gallery of Art: Foot Soldier in Front of a Tree
Mercenary and Tross evidence1514–1562

Virgil Solis

Draughtsman, engraver, and designer of woodcuts

Solis produced extensive series of military figures, including Landsknechte and a female sutler with a boy. His work is among the clearest later-sixteenth-century visual evidence for people provisioning and accompanying troops.

Rijksmuseum: Female Sutler and Boy with a Dead Rooster
Direct Landsknecht evidence1472–1553

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Painter and printmaker

Cranach’s Saxon workshop ranged across portraits, court culture, paintings, and prints. His paired Landsknecht and fashionable woman connects soldier imagery with courtship, dress, and gendered social presentation.

British Museum: Lansquenet and Lady Holding Daisies
Military and dress contextc. 1480–1542

Leonhard Beck

Painter and designer of woodcuts

Beck designed much of Maximilian I’s Theuerdank and contributed to the imperial Triumphal Procession. His battle scenes provide detailed context for infantry formations, baggage, artillery, fortified landscapes, and campaign storytelling.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Battle Against the Blue Company
Military and dress context1502–c. 1555/61

Heinrich Aldegrever

Painter and engraver

A Westphalian Little Master known for precise engravings. His armed foot soldiers and genre scenes are useful comparative evidence; older print catalogues sometimes call figures Landsknechte where modern museums use broader titles.

The Met: Foot-Soldier with Fire-Pan and Bucket
Direct Landsknecht evidencec. 1485–1553

Wolfgang Huber

Painter, draughtsman, and designer of woodcuts

A leading Danube School artist whose landscapes and figure designs include marching Landsknechte. His work joins close soldier observation to the terrain through which troops moved.

Heidelberg: Three Landsknechte on the March
Direct Landsknecht evidence1525–1571

Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch

Painter, draughtsman, and print designer

The Bernese artist continued a family tradition shaped by Swiss military service and civic art. Woodcuts after his designs include explicitly catalogued Landsknecht figures, useful with the usual caution that Swiss and German mercenary identities are not interchangeable.

Rijksmuseum: Landsknecht after Manuel Deutsch
Mercenary and Tross evidencec. 1490–1546

Peter Flötner

Sculptor, designer, and printmaker

Flötner worked across sculpture, ornament, prints, and book design in Nuremberg. His name is important in Landsknecht cataloguing because several soldier designs once attributed to him are now assigned to Erhard Schön or Sebald Beham; attribution history must remain visible.

British Museum: Peter Flötner collection biography
Military and dress contextc. 1500–c. 1536

Hans Weiditz

Painter and designer of woodcuts

The ‘Petrarch Master’ was one of the period’s most inventive book illustrators. His crowded social scenes, occupations, urban life, and Maximilian-era commissions broaden the comparative record around soldiers and camp society, even where no figure is explicitly catalogued as a Landsknecht.

British Museum: Hans Weiditz collection biography
Military and dress context1490–1556

Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder

Painter, printmaker, publisher, and designer

Vogtherr worked in Augsburg, Strasbourg, Zürich, and Vienna, producing woodcuts, pattern books, maps, and soldier designs. His career links court art, publishing, armour, and the wider visual vocabulary used to represent sixteenth-century troops.

British Museum: Heinrich Vogtherr I collection biography
Documented block cutteractive c. 1508–1544

Jost de Negker

Formschneider (specialist block cutter) and printer

De Negker translated designs by Schäufelein, Burgkmair, the Breus, and others into printable woodblocks. Signed and catalogued Landsknecht sheets demonstrate why the cutter’s skilled execution should be credited separately from the designer.

British Museum: Schäufelein standard-bearer cut by de Negker
Documented block cutterdied 1526

Hans Lützelburger

Formschneider (specialist block cutter)

Lützelburger was one of the finest cutters of the German Renaissance. The British Museum explicitly credits him with cutting Urs Graf’s Two Mercenaries and a Woman, making his role directly relevant to mercenary and camp-life imagery.

British Museum: Urs Graf woodcut cut by Lützelburger
Documented block cutterc. 1485–1556

Hieronymus Andreae

Formschneider, printer, and publisher

Andreae supervised and cut blocks for monumental Dürer and Maximilian projects. These imperial programs supply essential military, heraldic, and ceremonial context, while museum cataloguing separates his cutting from the artists’ designs.

The Met: Arch of Honor, block cutter credited
Direct identification Military or dress context Later copy

Artist / workshop

After Sebald Beham

2 works
Landsknechte: a Landsknecht holding a staff by After Sebald Beham
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LandsknechteLater copy

Landsknechte: a Landsknecht holding a staff

1750–1800; after a 16th-century original · Colour woodcut from two blocks

A later colour reprint copied from a sixteenth-century original; useful for reception and print-history study.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1849,1031.258 · Savage 79
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Artist / workshop

After: Erhard Schön

2 works
Landsknecht Frey by After: Erhard Schön
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Landsknecht Frey

1525–1580 · Woodcut, letterpress

An enlarged copy after Schön's Hollstein 118, showing a soldier carrying a musket. Formerly attributed to Peter Flötner. The copy relationship is retained rather than presenting this as an autograph Schön impression. Museum Description and Producer name; Hollstein 118 Copy a, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.116
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Feldt Waywel Clas — later colour copy by After: Erhard Schön
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LandsknechteLater copy

Feldt Waywel Clas — later colour copy

Copy catalogued c. 1750–1800; tone block added for 1810s reprint · Woodcut, colour

Reduced copy after Schön's halberdier (Hollstein 117). The Museum records a dull-green tone block added for the Derschau reprint in the 1810s. This is a later reception object, not an original sixteenth-century colour scheme. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 117 Copy a I and Savage 2021, no. 80, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1849,1031.257
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Artist / workshop

After: Erhard Schön; Printed by: Hans Guldenmundt

1 work
Landsknecht Doppelsoldner — copy after Schön by After: Erhard Schön; Printed by: Hans Guldenmundt
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Landsknecht Doppelsoldner — copy after Schön

c. 1525–1580 · Woodcut, letterpress

Copy after Schön's Hollstein 116, printed by Hans Guldenmundt. The soldier carries a sword over his shoulder and wears a cap with a peacock feather. The Museum records altered hand and leg details; the printer's name has been trimmed away. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 116 Copy a, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1972,U.1101
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Artist / workshop

After: Erhard Schön; Printed by: Hans Hofer

1 work
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German men & dressDress context

Virtues and vices — broadside fragment

1535 · Woodcut

A copy after Schön printed by Hans Hofer. Female personifications and accompanying women occupy contemporary interiors and townscapes, offering a qualified civilian-dress comparison. The fragment was printed from two blocks. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 74 Copy, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.166
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Artist / workshop

Albrecht Dürer

3 works
Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht by Albrecht Dürer
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947 (47.100.1283).
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Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht

1485–1528 · Pen and brown ink with wash

A mounted knight accompanied by a Landsknecht; the museum identifies both figures in the title.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
47.100.1283
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Death and the Lansquenet by Albrecht Dürer
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Death and the Lansquenet

1510 · Woodcut

Death presents an hourglass to a richly dressed soldier carrying a polearm.

Institution
National Gallery of Art
Identifier
1943.3.3748 · artwork 6729
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Artist / workshop

Anonymous

1 work

Artist / workshop

Anonymous Augsburg workshop

1 work
Trachtenbuch of Matthäus Schwarz by Anonymous Augsburg workshop
Downloaded public-domain manuscript page
German men & dressDress context

Trachtenbuch of Matthäus Schwarz

1520–1560; later manuscript copy · Illustrated costume book

A long visual sequence of one Augsburg man’s clothing; civilian evidence that should not be treated automatically as soldier clothing.

Institution
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum manuscript · Wikimedia scan
Identifier
139-page digitized manuscript
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Artist / workshop

Anonymous German, probably Nuremberg

1 work
Two Landsknechts by Anonymous German, probably Nuremberg
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 (1982.60.118, .119).
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Two Landsknechts

Mid-16th century · Bronze candle-holder figures

Two German Landsknecht figures originally made to hold candles in their raised hands.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
1982.60.118, .119
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Artist / workshop

Anonymous, after Virgilius Solis

1 work
Landsknecht by Anonymous, after Virgilius Solis
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LandsknechteLater copy

Landsknecht

1524–1612 · Engraving and etching

Anonymous copy after a military figure by Virgilius Solis.

Institution
Rijksmuseum
Identifier
RP-P-OB-54.780 · Hollstein 141 copy
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Artist / workshop

Anonymous; Valvassori workshop

1 work
Battle of Marignano, 1515 by Anonymous; Valvassori workshop
Official e-rara IIIF image · Public Domain Mark
Battles, camp & TrossMilitary context

Battle of Marignano, 1515

ca. 1515/1516 · Hand-colored single-sheet woodcut

A monumental Venetian print made soon after Marignano. It is direct campaign evidence, but the catalog does not identify every soldier by contingent, so the figures are not automatically labeled Landsknechte.

Institution
Zentralbibliothek Zürich · e-rara
Identifier
Inv. 307 · DOI 10.3931/e-rara-36241
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Artist / workshop

Attributed to Jörg Breu I

1 work
A Landsknecht — fol. 143r by Attributed to Jörg Breu I
Exact folio · British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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A Landsknecht — fol. 143r

1535 · Woodcut in an illustrated book

The British Museum assigns fol. 143r to its group of 53 woodcuts attributed to Jörg Breu the Elder in Der Teütsch Cicero and the appended Memorial der Tugend.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1907,0710.3 · fol. 143r
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Artist / workshop

Attributed to: Erhard Schön

2 works
Ulrich von Hutten in armour by Attributed to: Erhard Schön
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German soldiersMilitary context

Ulrich von Hutten in armour

c. 1520s · Woodcut

Tentatively attributed to Schön. The armoured scholar and knight rests a hand on a sword hilt; this is not an identification as a Landsknecht. Museum Description and Producer name; Hollstein 168, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1911,0708.39
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Procession of soldiers by Attributed to: Erhard Schön
Museum detail: standard-bearer and accompanying soldiers (sheet 6) · © The Trustees of the British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Unmodified official preview · Image licence
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Procession of soldiers

1532–1542 · Woodcut

Attributed to Schön. A mounted captain leads lansquenets, with a standard-bearer and further riders. A complete frieze has nine sheets from eight blocks; the Museum's impression lacks sheet eight, which repeats sheet four. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 141, excluding sheet eight, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.129-136
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Artist / workshop

Attributed to: Erhard Schön; Block cut by: Jost de Negker; Published by: David de Negker

2 works
Landsknecht holding a halberd, looking right by Attributed to: Erhard Schön; Block cut by: Jost de Negker; Published by: David de Negker
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Landsknecht holding a halberd, looking right

Design c. 1525–1530; published c. 1580–1585 · Woodcut

Attributed to Schön, formerly to Jörg Breu I. The Museum credits Jost de Negker with cutting the block and David de Negker with the later Vienna publication. The damaged sheet has been repaired. Museum Description, Producer name and Production date; Dodgson II.187.2, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1708
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Landsknecht holding a halberd, looking left by Attributed to: Erhard Schön; Block cut by: Jost de Negker; Published by: David de Negker
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Landsknecht holding a halberd, looking left

Design c. 1525–1530; published c. 1580–1585 · Woodcut

Attributed to Schön, formerly to Jörg Breu I. Jost de Negker cut the block; David de Negker published the later Vienna impression. Kept distinct from the right-facing halberdier, 1845,0809.1708. Museum Description, Producer name and Production date; Dodgson II.188.4, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1725
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Artist / workshop

Barthel Beham

1 work

Artist / workshop

Daniel Hopfer

1 work
Five German Soldiers by Daniel Hopfer
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German soldiersMilitary context

Five German Soldiers

1505–1536 · Etching

Five armed German soldiers in varied poses and equipment.

Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Identifier
1920.2272
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Artist / workshop

Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön

3 works
A lansquenet and his wife by Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön
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A lansquenet and his wife

1505–1536 · Etching

Daniel Hopfer's etching reverses Schön's design (Hollstein 132). A small dog walks between the soldier's legs. Museum Description; Hopfer, Hollstein 71.I and Bartsch VIII.488.63, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1348
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The cook and his wife by Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön
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The cook and his wife

1505–1536 · Etching

Hopfer's reverse copy after Schön (Hollstein 133) pairs a lansquenet carrying a lance with his wife and her cooking implements. This is an etching, not Schön's original woodcut. Museum Description; Hopfer, Hollstein 70.I, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1347
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Three Swiss lansquenets by Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön
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LandsknechteMilitary context

Three Swiss lansquenets

1520–1536 · Etching

Hopfer's etching includes reverse copies of Schön's musket-bearer and lance-bearer (Hollstein 118 and 115). The Museum's title identifies the group as Swiss. Museum Description; Hopfer, Hollstein 72.I and Bartsch VIII.488.64, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1349
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Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön; After: Sebald Beham

1 work
Three German lansquenets by Daniel Hopfer; After: Erhard Schön; After: Sebald Beham
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Three German lansquenets

1520–1536 · Etching

Daniel Hopfer combines reverse copies of Schön's sword-bearer and halberdier (Hollstein 116–117) with a central figure after Sebald Beham (Hollstein 282). The three figures do not all derive from Schön. Museum Description; Hopfer, Hollstein 73.I, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1350
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Erhard Schön

10 works
Standard-bearer by Erhard Schön
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Standard-bearer

1535 · Pen and black ink

The dated pen-and-ink drawing shows a soldier with sword and billowing standard. The Museum relates it to the standard-bearer in the long procession woodcut. Its number is 1986,0301.2; the Museum flags 1986,0301.3 in Rowlands as an error. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Rowlands 1993, no. 462, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1986,0301.2
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Officer in armour supporting a coat of arms by Erhard Schön
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Hauptleute & officersMilitary context

Officer in armour supporting a coat of arms

c. 1530–1540 · Pen and black ink

Pen-and-ink drawing, probably a design for a heraldic glass roundel according to the Museum. The shield has two stars and a dog's-head crest; the arms remain unidentified. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Rowlands 1993, no. 459, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
SL,5218.226
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German men & dressDress context

Tending grasshoppers / On conjugal fidelity

c. 1532 · Woodcut

A mounted husband departs while his friend raises a hat; the wife and her lover form part of an Aesopic satire. Retained as a civilian figure comparison, not documentary evidence of marriage customs. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 107, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.158
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Fourteen men of various trades

c. 1530–1535 · Woodcut

The recto includes a lansquenet and an officer among clergy, craftsmen and a peasant. The current object description identifies a table-player; the older image caption calls that figure a drummer. The anonymous arabesque on the verso is a different design. Museum Description; Hollstein 82, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.162
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Ein Klag zu Gott — The Ottoman invasion of Hungary

1532 · Woodcut, letterpress

Three-block illustration for a Hans Sachs poem of 30 November 1532. Ottoman troops, captives, burning settlements and impaled heads form a hostile wartime representation, not an unqualified eyewitness account. No impression with the poem survives, according to the Museum. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 18, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1849,1031.255
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Landsknecht Gall from Unterwalden by Erhard Schön
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LandsknechteMilitary context

Landsknecht Gall from Unterwalden

1525–1542 · Woodcut, letterpress

A named Swiss soldier holding a lance, with six lines of letterpress. Formerly attributed to Peter Flötner. The Museum corrects the Hollstein variant to 115a. Museum Description, Inscriptions and Bibliographic references; Dodgson I.531.6, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,9.192
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Fraw Seltenfrid — Mistress Seldom Peace

c. 1535 · Woodcut

The Museum identifies a lansquenet holding a mule's reins alongside a knight, commoner and woman with a distaff. The precise satirical subject and some initials remain unexplained. The English title glosses Seltenfrid, following the Museum. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 89, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.163
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The siege of Münster

Design c. 1535–1536; late impression, date unspecified · Woodcut

The two-block illustration depicts seven camps, marching soldiers and cannon fire around Münster. The Museum explicitly calls this a late impression but supplies no separate impression date. Museum Description; Hollstein 19c and Geisberg 1256–1257, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1873,0712.105
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A Lansquenet Leader by Erhard Schön
Exact design · alternate Albertina impression · public domain
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A Lansquenet Leader

c. 1532 · Woodcut

The holding record identifies the design and execution as Erhard Schön and the subject as a Landsknecht leader.

Institution
Nuremberg Municipal Library · Virtual Museum of Nuremberg Art
Identifier
HbH 5,5
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Der Heereszug der Landsknechte, Blatt 7 by Erhard Schön
Locally cached · Heidelberg public-domain catalogue plate
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Der Heereszug der Landsknechte, Blatt 7

Early 16th century · Single-leaf woodcut reproduced by Geisberg

Five halberdiers and five common soldiers from a marching Landsknecht army series.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Geisberg IV, 36 · Pauli 1451
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Artist / workshop

Erhard Schön (? See Curatorial Comment); Printed by: Hans Guldenmundt (? See Curatorial Comment)

1 work
A landsknecht and his wife — qualified attribution by Erhard Schön (? See Curatorial Comment); Printed by: Hans Guldenmundt (? See Curatorial Comment)
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A landsknecht and his wife — qualified attribution

c. 1525–1580 · Woodcut, letterpress

The Museum questions both Schön's printmaking credit and Hans Guldenmundt's printing credit. Its curator notes that Dodgson called this a Guldenmundt copy with simplified white lines on belt and shoes. Keep that uncertainty when comparing costume details. Museum Producer name and Curator's comments; Hollstein 132, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.115
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Artist / workshop

Erhard Schön design; surviving copy (see Museum commentary)

1 work
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German men & dressDress context

Three peasant women

c. 1530–1535 · Woodcut

Women carry a basket, goose, mantle, rake and sickle. Although the maker field says Schön, the curator describes surviving copies after a lost original; this impression is Hollstein 83 Copy a. The verso's fountain decoration is by Monogrammist HS. Museum Description and Curator's comments.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.171
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Erhard Schön; After: Matthes Gebel; Printed by: Hans Glaser

1 work
Albrecht Dürer Conterfeyt — Portrait of Dürer in his 56th year by Erhard Schön; After: Matthes Gebel; Printed by: Hans Glaser
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Albrecht Dürer Conterfeyt — Portrait of Dürer in his 56th year

Design 1528–1529; printed c. 1550 · Woodcut, letterpress, hand-coloured

Schön's profile portrait after Matthes Gebel's medal, printed by Hans Glaser with Hans Sachs's commemorative poem. Retained as a civilian portrait comparison. The Museum dates this impression around 1550 and notes that the poem gives an incorrect date for Dürer's death. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 156.I, text a, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1885,0509.1587
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Erhard Schön; Printed by: Christoph Zell

3 works
Die eytel vergengklich Freudt und wollust diser welt — The vain and transitory joys of this world by Erhard Schön; Printed by: Christoph Zell
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Die eytel vergengklich Freudt und wollust diser welt — The vain and transitory joys of this world

1534 · Woodcut, letterpress

An allegorical garden contains jousting, dancing, wrestling and hunting. Retained for civilian and courtly activity comparisons, not as a literal record of a particular event. This impression includes Hans Sachs's verse and Christoph Zell's imprint. Museum Description; Hollstein 7a, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,9.122
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A man on horseback — Unnderweissung der Proportzion by Erhard Schön; Printed by: Christoph Zell
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German men & dressDress context

A man on horseback — Unnderweissung der Proportzion

Design dated 1540 in description; 1542 edition · Woodcut

Rider in profile from Schön's proportion manual, printed by Christoph Zell in Nuremberg. The Museum records pounced outlines for transfer. A useful figure-study example; the rider is not identified as a soldier. Museum Description and Production date; Hollstein I.42.33, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,9.81
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The vain and transitory joys of this world — illustration and title by Erhard Schön; Printed by: Christoph Zell
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The vain and transitory joys of this world — illustration and title

1534 · Woodcut, letterpress

An early impression containing the woodcut and title only, without the accompanying Sachs poem present on E,9.122. Jousting and civilian pastimes occur within an allegorical garden. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 7b, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1871,1209.971.+
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Erhard Schön; Printed by: Hans Guldenmundt

1 work
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An army train accompanied by Death

c. 1532 · Woodcut

Four-block frieze printed by Hans Guldenmundt: soldiers, women, baggage wagons, prisoners and animals travel with figures of Death. The Museum tentatively connects it to a lost Hans Sachs poem. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein 16a, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
E,8.140-143
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Erhard Schön; Printed by: Höltzel, Hieronymus

1 work
A peasant holding a flail by Erhard Schön; Printed by: Höltzel, Hieronymus
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A peasant holding a flail

1524 · Woodcut

Title-page illustration to Diepold Peringer's Eyn Sermon, printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg. The figure is identified as a peasant, not a Landsknecht. The Museum discusses a possible heraldic comparison with Bundschuh imagery while leaving the letters unexplained. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Hollstein II.58.1, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1909,0612.36
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Erhard Schön; Printed by: Peter Steinbach

1 work
An army train accompanied by Death — Steinbach impression by Erhard Schön; Printed by: Peter Steinbach
Museum detail: Death and baggage at the rear of the train · © The Trustees of the British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Unmodified official preview · Image licence
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An army train accompanied by Death — Steinbach impression

Design c. 1532; printed c. 1630–1640 · Woodcut, letterpress

Peter Steinbach's seventeenth-century impression of Schön's four-block army train. Kept distinct from E,8.140–143: the impression date matters when using the sheet as historical evidence. Museum Description, Production date and Curator's comments; Hollstein 16b, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1909,0612.21
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Erhard Schön; Published by: Friedrich Peypus

1 work
Ottoman camp before Vienna — Ein neues Lied by Erhard Schön; Published by: Friedrich Peypus
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Ottoman camp before Vienna — Ein neues Lied

1529 · Woodcut, letterpress

Title-page woodcut in a song pamphlet published by Friedrich Peypus in Nuremberg. It depicts Ottoman forces outside Vienna; it is evidence of printed representation of the siege. Museum Description and Curator's comments; Paisey 296 and Röttinger 55, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1949,0411.4976
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Franz Brun

1 work
The Gunner by Franz Brun
Locally cached · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0
German soldiersMilitary context

The Gunner

1559 · Engraving

A bearded gunner beside a cannon, cannonballs, and a wooden chest.

Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Identifier
1925.1290 · Hollstein V.8.61
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Artist / workshop

Hans Burgkmair the Elder

1 work
The Battle of Padua by Hans Burgkmair the Elder
Official NGA public-domain image
Battles, camp & TrossMilitary context

The Battle of Padua

Early 16th century · Drawing

A military encampment, troops, fortifications, and Padua.

Institution
National Gallery of Art
Identifier
1957.13.1 · artwork 43717
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Hans Schäufelein

3 works
Landsknecht by Hans Schäufelein
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2003 (2003.424).
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Landsknecht

Early 16th century · Pen and iron-gall ink

A public-domain drawing cataloged by the museum as a Landsknecht.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
2003.424
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Zwei Landsknechte mit Spiess und Helmbarde by Hans Schäufelein
Locally cached · Heidelberg public-domain catalogue plate
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Zwei Landsknechte mit Spiess und Helmbarde

Early 16th century · Single-leaf woodcut reproduced by Geisberg

Two Landsknechte with spear and halberd; page-level link to Max Geisberg’s illustrated catalogue.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Geisberg I, 32
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Ein Fähnrich zwischen zwei Landsknechten by Hans Schäufelein
Locally cached · Heidelberg public-domain catalogue plate
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Ein Fähnrich zwischen zwei Landsknechten

c. 1515 · Single-leaf woodcut reproduced by Geisberg

A standard-bearer between two Landsknechte; cataloged from the Erlangen University Library impression.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Geisberg II, 26
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Artist / workshop

Heinrich Aldegrever

2 works
Foot-Soldier with Fire-Pan and Bucket by Heinrich Aldegrever
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962 (62.683.3).
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Foot-Soldier with Fire-Pan and Bucket

1529 · Engraving

The museum titles the figure a foot-soldier; historical print catalogues call the subject a Landsknecht with fire-pan.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
62.683.3 · Bartsch 174
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The Monk and the Nun by Heinrich Aldegrever
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum Accession, 1955 (55.600).
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The Monk and the Nun

1530 · Engraving

An armed soldier looks through a doorway at a monk and nun. This corrects a false link to British Museum 1848,0911.95, which is a Rembrandt etching rather than an Aldegrever impression.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
55.600 · Bartsch 178
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Artist / workshop

Jacob Binck

1 work
Three Landsknecht-and-Death engravings by Jacob Binck
Bartsch 50 exact work · Rijksmuseum · public domain
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Three Landsknecht-and-Death engravings

16th century · Engravings; historical catalogue record

The 1925 Boerner catalogue records Landsknecht with Halberd and Death, Death and the Landsknecht, and Death Striking a Landsknecht. The preview is the Rijksmuseum's public-domain impression of Bartsch 50; Bartsch 51–52 remain discovery leads.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Bartsch 50–52 · Aumüller 87–89
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Artist / workshop

Jörg Breu I

3 works
A long-bearded Landsknecht by Jörg Breu I
Locally cached · British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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A long-bearded Landsknecht

c. 1525–1530; published c. 1580–1585 · Woodcut

Whole-length Landsknecht holding a hat and pole; cut by Jost de Negker.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1710 · New Hollstein 20
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Jörg Breu II

1 work

Artist / workshop

Jost Amman

2 works

Artist / workshop

Leonhard Beck

1 work
The Battle Against the Blue Company by Leonhard Beck
Locally cached · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0
Battles, camp & TrossMilitary context

The Battle Against the Blue Company

1512–1518 · Woodcut

A Weisskunig battle scene with infantry formations, pikes, banners, archers, and a fortified landscape.

Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Identifier
1960.34
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Artist / workshop

Lucas Cranach the Elder

3 works
Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920 (20.64.21).
German men & dressDress context

Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk

1520 · Engraving

A dated German portrait providing clerical dress and portrait context from the classic Landsknecht period.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
20.64.21
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Johann, Duke of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.19).
German men & dressDress context

Johann, Duke of Saxony

c. 1534–1537 · Oil on beech

A court portrait documenting elite male dress in Saxony.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
08.19
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Lansquenet and Lady Holding Daisies by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lansquenet sheet · British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Lansquenet and Lady Holding Daisies

c. 1504–1506 · Woodcut from two blocks on two sheets

Canonical museum record for Cranach’s paired Landsknecht and feathered lady; the soldier corresponds to Geisberg IX,27.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1924,0617.15–16 · Bartsch VII.292.120–121
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Artist / workshop

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop

1 work
Friedrich III, the Wise, Elector of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Robert Lehman, 1946 (46.179.1).
German men & dressDress context

Friedrich III, the Wise, Elector of Saxony

1533 · Oil on beech with letterpress labels

A posthumous Saxon electoral portrait with period court clothing and insignia.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
46.179.1
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Artist / workshop

Lucas Cranach the Younger

1 work
Johann Scheyring by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Exact object image · The Met Open Access · CC0 1.0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 (27.54.76).
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Johann Scheyring

1537 · Woodcut

A dated German male portrait woodcut useful for comparative clothing and headwear.

Institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Identifier
27.54.76
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Artist / workshop

Monogrammist IW, after Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch

1 work
Landsknecht by Monogrammist IW, after Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch
Locally cached · Rijksmuseum · public domain
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Landsknecht

1547 · Woodcut

A public-domain woodcut explicitly cataloged as a Landsknecht.

Institution
Rijksmuseum
Identifier
RP-P-OB-21.684 · Hollstein German 4a-1(2)
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Artist / workshop

Niklas Stör

1 work
Ein Soldatenzug by Niklas Stör
Locally cached · Heidelberg public-domain catalogue plate
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Ein Soldatenzug

c. 1520–1562 · Multi-sheet woodcut procession reproduced by Geisberg

A long soldier procession with musicians, a standard-bearer, gunners, common troops, a Feldwebel, two-handed swordsmen, and halberdiers.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Geisberg VI, 37–38 and VII, 34–37
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Artist / workshop

Sebald Beham

2 works
A Landsknecht holding a spear by Sebald Beham
Locally cached · British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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A Landsknecht holding a spear

c. 1525–1530; published c. 1580–1585 · Woodcut

Whole-length figure with spear, short sword, and wide feathered hat from the fifty-print series.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1845,0809.1721 · Pauli/Hollstein 1255
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Foot Soldier Standing by a Tree by Sebald Beham
Locally cached · National Gallery of Art · CC0
German soldiersMilitary context

Foot Soldier Standing by a Tree

1520 · Etching

An armed German foot soldier in elaborate early-sixteenth-century dress.

Institution
National Gallery of Art
Identifier
1941.2.4 · New Hollstein 207
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Artist / workshop

Sebald Beham; Erhard Schön

1 work
Landsknechte: Doppelsöldner, soldier and wife, soldier and dog by Sebald Beham; Erhard Schön
© The Trustees of the British Museum · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Unmodified official preview · Image licence
LandsknechteLater copy

Landsknechte: Doppelsöldner, soldier and wife, soldier and dog

Designs catalogued c. 1525–1580; later Derschau or Becker impressions · Woodcut

Three blocks on one sheet: Schön's Doppelsöldner (Hollstein 116), Schön's soldier and wife (132), and Beham's soldier and dog (1253). Peter Flötner is a former attribution. The Museum identifies these as Derschau or Becker impressions, not a contemporary three-figure group. Museum Description and Producer name; Hollstein 116b, as cited by the Museum.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1849,1031.256
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Urs Graf

5 works
Standard-Bearer for the Canton of Bern by Urs Graf
Official NGA public-domain image
Hauptleute & officersMilitary context

Standard-Bearer for the Canton of Bern

1521 · Woodcut

A Swiss standard-bearer; useful comparative Reisläufer evidence rather than an Imperial Landsknecht identification.

Institution
National Gallery of Art
Identifier
2010.51.1 · Hollstein 30
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Image withheld · the Dresden photograph has no verified reusable license
LandsknechteMilitary context

The Farewell

1513 or 1515 · Pen and black ink

The Morgan’s exhibition page connects Graf’s soldier imagery with his experience on military campaigns.

Institution
Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden · presented by the Morgan Library
Identifier
C 1899-42 · exhibition entry 003
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Mercenary woodcut by Urs Graf
Alternate impression · National Gallery of Art · public domain
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Mercenary woodcut

1524 · Woodcut

British Museum impression of Bartsch 16; the fallback image is the same design in the National Gallery of Art collection.

Institution
British Museum
Identifier
1895,0122.1127
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Virgilius Solis

4 works
Landsknecht with swords by Virgilius Solis
Locally cached · Rijksmuseum · public domain
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Landsknecht with swords

1524–1562 · Engraving and etching

One of eleven prints of military figures standing in landscapes.

Institution
Rijksmuseum
Identifier
RP-P-OB-54.789 · Hollstein 149
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Landsknecht with a staff by Virgilius Solis
Locally cached · Rijksmuseum · public domain
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Landsknecht with a staff

1524–1562 · Engraving and etching

Part of a seven-print Landsknechte series.

Institution
Rijksmuseum
Identifier
RP-P-OB-54.800 · Hollstein 158
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Artist / workshop

Wolfgang Huber

1 work
Drei Landsknechte auf dem Marsche by Wolfgang Huber
Locally cached · Heidelberg public-domain catalogue plate
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Drei Landsknechte auf dem Marsche

1515 · Single-leaf woodcut reproduced by Geisberg

Three Landsknechte on the march; Geisberg records the Basel public collection impression.

Institution
Heidelberg University Library digital collection
Identifier
Geisberg VIII, 39
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Reference catalogues

Max Geisberg and institutional indexes

Max Geisberg was an art historian and cataloguer, not the original maker of the sixteenth-century woodcuts. His illustrated volumes remain standard references for artists, impressions, and holding collections.