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MURER, Jos
1530–1580
Jos Murer (1530–1580), a glass painter from Zürich, was at the same time
a popular mapmaker. In 1560 he produced the map of the canton of Zürich
and in 1576 the famous town map-view of Zürich. This extremely detailed
map-view measures 132 x 90 cm and is cut into six almost square
woodblocks. Subject of interest is the representation of Grossmünster
Cathedral. Located at a point of intersection of four sheets, this
church was left out and cut into a separate woodblock as an overprint,
ready to be glued to the final map.
Not less than eight editions of this town map-view have presumably been
published up to now – last in 1966 and 1996 – still hand-made from the
original woodblocks by means of abrasion with a spoon. The woodblocks
are stored in the State Archives of the canton of Zürich.
Bibliographic note
Edited version of: Jos Murers Planvedute der Stadt Zürich von 1576.
Zurich, 1996, and of: Jos Murers Planvedute der Stadt Zürich von 1576.
Langnau am Albis, 1975 [1976]. (Publikationen zur Geschichte der
Kartographie 3).
Also published as: Jos Murers Planvedute der Stadt Zürich von 1576. Eine
Dokumentation. Zurich, 1997."
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