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Martin Schongauer

c. 1448–1491 · 15th century

Martin Schongauer was an Alsatian painter and engraver of Colmar, the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer. His copper engravings circulated widely across Europe, and his painting the Madonna of the Rose Bower of 1473 survives in Colmar's Dominican church. He died in Breisach in 1491.

Martin Schongauer
Image: Hans Burgkmair the Elder · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Free Imperial City of Colmar

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