David Kandel ( 1520 - 1592)

Renaissance artist, engraver and scientific illustrator. Little can be verified of his life. He was probably born in Strasbourg, in 1520, married in 1554 and 33 years later, in 1587, he was named “owner of a house”. David Kandel died in 1592. His woodcuts for Bock’s Kreuterbuch were seen at the time as the best of botanical art for the next two centuries. He also engraved a number of maps and illustrations for Sebastion Munster’s Cosmographia.