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."
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The 3 of Birds from the playing cards, a "single-plate card"
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Master of the Playing Cards, A Poet Reading, 1430s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.![The 9 of Beasts from the playing cards. The central climbing bear also appears in an illuminated copy of the Gutenberg Bible. This is a "multiple-plate card", where each animal is on a separate small copper plate, several of which are reused on other cards.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Raubtier_Neun_%28Meister_der_Spielkarten%29.png/330px-Raubtier_Neun_%28Meister_der_Spielkarten%29.png)
The 9 of Beasts from the playing cards. The central climbing bear also appears in an illuminated copy of the Gutenberg Bible. This is a "multiple-plate card", where each animal is on a separate small copper plate, several of which are reused on other cards.[1]
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (circa 1440)Artists from Germany 6
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