The Master of the Nuremberg Woodcut: The Life and Legacy of Erhard Schön In the heart of the German Renaissance, where the bustling workshops of Nuremberg breathed life into the burgeoning world of printmaking, Erhard Schön emerged as a virtuoso of the woodblock. Born around 1491 into a city defined by its artistic rigor and intellectual fervor, Schön was a child of tradition. He descended from Marx Schön III, a painter whose modest workshop provided the foundational training for the young artist. This early immersion in the tactile realities of pigment and wood allowed Schön to develop a pr…