( fl early 16th century). German woodcutter, painter and draughtsman. He cut most of the 54 illustrations (Stumm, nos 145, 147, 149, 151, 153) for the satirical poem Geuchmatt (Basle, 1519) by Thomas Murner (1475–1537), which was printed by Adam Petri ( fl 1509–27); some are monogrammed. The woodcuts are indebted to the style of Urs Graf, and for his female figures Master C.A. used as a model the series of woodcuts of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (1518; Stumm, nos 144, 146, 148, 150, 152) by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch I; some of the portraits of fashionably dressed women, exaggerated in a slightly Mannerist way, are direct copies with details omitted. Master C.A. contributed three woodcuts to the Familienchronik des Grafen Truchsessen von Waldburg by Matthäus von Pappenheim (n.p., c. 1519/R Memmingen, 1777–85, 2 vols). In the monogrammed painting St Jerome in the Wilderness (1519; Basle, Kstmus.) the saint is a staffage figure in a sketchy, brown-coloured rocky wilderness built up in the style of Hans Leu II.

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