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Born 1593 • Basel • Switzerland
Died 1650 (aged 57) • Germany
Notable Family Members daughter Maria Sibylla Merian

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Georges Rouault
French artist
Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
Daniel Chodowiecki
German artist
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
Allaert van Everdingen
Dutch painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
Pennell, Joseph: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Thirty-Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue
Joseph Pennell
American artist and writer
Okumura Masanobu: woodcut of Sugawara Michizane
Okumura Masanobu
Japanese artist
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
German engraver
“Long View” of London from Southwark
Wenceslaus Hollar
Bohemian etcher
Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the Younger
French artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Adolf von Menzel
German painter
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist