Hans Sebald Beham

Working first in Nuremberg, where he trained and later ran his own workshop, Hans Sebald Beham was a German artist known for his miniature engravings and woodcuts. He belonged to the Little Masters, a group of printmakers active after Dürer, and produced hundreds of engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, including book illustrations and designs for playing cards and wallpaper. Banished from Nuremberg in 1525 for heresy alongside his brother and another artist, he later returned but left again after controversy over a treatise on horse proportions. Beham spent his later career in Frankfurt, focusing on detailed prints depicting peasant life, classical themes, and often erotic scenes.