SCHÖN, Erhard
(b. ca. 1491, Nürnberg, d. 1542, Nürnberg)

Complaint of the Poor Persecuted Idols

c. 1530
Woodcut
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

In the mid-1520s, Schön began designing broadsheets that spoofed current events and human nature and illustrated satirical poems by a Nuremberg poet.




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