Christoph Weiditz (1498, Strasbourg or Freiburg im Breisgau - 1559, Augsburg) was a German painter, medalist, sculptor and goldsmith. His artistic development goes from a naïve-German record of the Renaissance influences to a clever mannerism. Christoph Weiditz is one of the four most important German medalist of the Renaissance, alongside Hans Schwarz, Friedrich Hagenauer and Matthes Gebel.[citation needed]
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He was the son of Hans Wydyz, Wyditz or Widitz (ca. 1460 - 1520), a sculptor who worked in Freiburg between 1497 and 1514. He was also the brother of Hans Weiditz, the Younger (1493–1537), a famous woodcut artist.
Between 1528 and 1529 he stayed in Spain and made drawings of the folk costumes the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula.[1][2]
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