# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/master-of-the-playing-cards
# Generated: 2026-08-15T23:12:08.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/master-of-the-playing-cards"
name: "Master of the Playing Cards"
slug: "master-of-the-playing-cards"
description: "The Master of the Playing Cards was the first major master in the history of European printmaking. He was a German engraver, and probably also a painter, active in southwestern Germany – probably in Alsace, from the 1430s to the 1450s, who has been called \"the first personality in the history of engraving.\""
tagline: "German engraver (fl. 1430s-1450s)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vogel_Drei_(Meister_der_Spielkarten).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             1.151009657594381
  historical:           5.891434666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AEtre_des_Cartes_%C3%A0_jouer"
    title: "Maître des Cartes à jouer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_der_Spielkarten"
    title: "Meister der Spielkarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Playing_Cards"
    title: "Master of the Playing Cards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestre_das_Cartas"
    title: "Mestre das Cartas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_delle_Carte_da_gioco"
    title: "Maestro delle Carte da gioco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistrz_Kart_do_Gry"
    title: "Mistrz Kart do Gry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331629"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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