Stephan Michelspacher Explained

Stephan Michelspacher was a Tyrolean printmaker active in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century.^[1]

Michelspacher was a paracelsian physician living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a Lutheran he left Tyrol in around 1613 owing to the Catholic Renewal promoted by the Habsburgs. Augsburg also was a centre of the print industry, in which Michelspacher was to participate.^[2]

In Augsburg, on becoming a printmaker, he published Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia in 1615. The book is noted for its selection of hermetic inspired prints.

He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, Pinax microcosmographicus.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stephan Michelspacher (Biographical details). British Museum. 13 May 2018.
2. Web site: Ackooy. Alinda van. Through the Alchemical Looking Glass. An Interpretation of Stephan Michelspacher's Cabala: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur, in Alchymia concerning the Tincture of the Alchemists. Academia.edu. 13 May 2018. en.
3. Book: Rola. Stanislas Klossowski de. The golden game : alchemical engravings of the seventeenth century. 1997. Thames and Hudson. New York. 978-0500279816. 1st paperback.