David Kandel

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Rhinoceros by David Kandel published in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia around 1550. The resemblance with Dürer's famous woodcut of a Rhinoceros is evident.
Rhinoceros by David Kandel published in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia around 1550. The resemblance with Dürer's famous woodcut of a Rhinoceros is evident.

David Kandel (1520 - 1592) was a Renaissance artist. Although it is known that he was the son of a Strasbourg citizen, few other details of his life have been recorded. Few events in his life are evident from surviving records. He is known to have married in 1554 and was named "owner of a house" in 1587. David Kandel's legacy is his numerous woodcuts depicting bible-scenes, portraits and studies of animals. His Rhinoceros in the Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster is well known as are the maps he provided for that work. His crowning artistic achievement was the 550 botanical woodcuts he provided for Hieronymus Bock's "Kreuterbuch (Book of Herbs)."

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