Holzmüller, Heinrich (sold)
Heinrich Holzmüller (fl. 1541-1559) was Swiss goldsmith, calligrapher and formschneider who worked in Berne and Basel, notably producing woodcuts for Sebastian Münster's 1550 Cosmographia, in which he typically signed his work with the sign 'HH'. As is the case with such artisans, virtually nothing is known of his education or life details beyong his work itself, although he is thought to have been from Solothurn.
First edition of the earliest printed map of Amsterdam available to the collector.
[Untitled Bird's Eye View of Amsterdam].
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This is Sebastian Münster's 1550 view / map of Amsterdam, the earliest acquirable printed map of that city. It was preceded only by the 1544 wall map of Cornelis Anthonisz, Münster's source for this view. Anthonisz's wall map - which survives in fewer than ten examples - represented the best (and only) firsthand depiction of Amsterdam of its time. Its depiction in 1550 by Münster and in 1572 by Braun and Hogenberg established as the dominant 16th century image f what would become the chief economic engine of the seventeenth century. (more details)