Die Kleinmeister
Die Kleinmeister is a 1908 art-historical survey by Hans Wolfgang Singer, published in Bielefeld and Leipzig by Velhagen & Klasing for readers of Renaissance prints. Its plates reproduce small-format engravings and woodcuts by German Little Masters, with captions beneath each image. A designer could take from them the compact, dense linework, crosshatching, and stage-like settings of early sixteenth-century printmaking, shown in a figure with a plumed hat, a kneeling woman before a parapet, a walled town with a woman struggling with a figure, and a roundel with a seated woman.
