Matthäus Schwarz

Matthew Schwarz ( born February 19, 1497 Augsburg; † around 1574 in Augsburg) was a merchant and art lovers in Augsburg.

Life

Black came from a 1400 from Rettenbergen immigrated to Augsburg Zimmermann family and was the grandson of Ulrich Schwarz, a multiple city keepers of Augsburg. After a commercial apprenticeship in Milan and Venice, where he acquired knowledge of accounting, he got a job in 1516 at Jacob Fugger. He was confidant of the family and was chief accountant of the Fuggers Society. In 1518 he wrote an ampersand textbook pattern book accounting. Besides, he employed artists like Narcissus hit. From this Augsburg artist comes a gender dance in 1522, the Augsburg patrician couples from the period from 1200 to the present day represented.

The costume book of Matthew Black

Matthew Black special love was his costume, so he got the nickname Kleidernarr. From 1520 he was painting for forty years on various occasions in full figure. From Renner to 1536, then to 1560 by an artist from Christoph Amberger's workshop. This book held in costume pictures recorded accurately occasion and circumstances, this biography begins at birth. Two nudes hold the proportions of the body.