Wolgemut, Michael (1434–1519)

German painter and engraver. As the head of a large workshop in Nuremberg, he produced many carved and painted altarpieces. He also made woodcut book illustrations. He was the master of Albrecht Dürer.

Among his altarpieces are those in Zwickau, southern Saxony, 1479 and Schwabach, just south of Nuremberg, 1508. He illustrated with woodcuts the Schatzkammer der wahren Reichthümer des Heils (1491) and the Weltchronik (1493–94) by Hartman Schedel, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle.