Erhard Schön was a 16th-century German woodcut designer and painter known for his anamorphic art. Born in Nuremberg, Schön was influenced by the printmaking of Albrecht Dürer and may have contributed a few woodcuts to Dürer’s works. Schön’s anamorphic art, also known as Vexierbilder or puzzle pictures, were created in the 1530s. These works used mathematical and metaphorical perspectives to visualize shifts in socially constructed points of view.
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