# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-wechtlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:05.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-wechtlin"
name: "Hans Wechtlin"
slug: "hans-wechtlin"
description: "Johann, Johannes or Hans Wechtlin was a German Renaissance artist, active between at least 1502 and 1526, whose woodcuts are his only certainly surviving work. He was the most prolific producer of German chiaroscuro woodcuts, printed in two or more colours, during their period in fashion, though most of his output was of book illustrations."
tagline: "German printmaker (1480-1530)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Wechtlin_Ritter_und_Fu%C3%9Fknecht.jpg/330px-Wechtlin_Ritter_und_Fu%C3%9Fknecht.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1480"
deathDate: "1526"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.06
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.004104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Wechtlin"
    title: "Johannes Wechtlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wechtlin"
    title: "Hans Wechtlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ulrich_Wechtlin"
    title: "Johann Ulrich Wechtlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wechtlin"
    title: "Hans Wechtlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Вехтлин, Ханс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1698584"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump