Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543. Totentanz (Personal Name)

His The dance of Death : Les simulachres & historiées faces de la Mort, 1974.

His Les simulachres & historiées faces de la Mort, 1538.

Thieme-Becker: v. 17, p. 343 (Totentanz)

Grosse Brockhaus, 15th ed.: v. 8, p. 605 (meist "Totentanz" genannt)

New encyc. Brit., Macropaedia: v. 8, p. 992 (Dance of Death)

Wikipedia, June 14, 2022 (Danse Macabre; Hans Holbein's woodcuts; renowned for his Dance of Death series, the famous designs by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) were drawn in 1526 while he was in Basel; they were cut in wood by the accomplished Formschneider (block cutter) Hans Lützelburger)

The Public Domain Review, via WWW, June 14, 2022 (Hans Holbein's Dance of Death (1523-1525); the Dance of Death by the German artist Hans Holbein (1497-1543) is a great, grim triumph of Renaissance woodblock printing; Holbein drew the woodcuts between 1523 and 1525, while in his twenties and based in the Swiss town of Basel; the blocks were cut by Hans Lützelburger, a frequent and highly skilled collaborator of Holbein's; Lützelburger had cut forty-one blocks and had ten remaining when Death surprised him too; the blocks were then sold to creditors, and eventually printed and published for the first time in Lyons in 1538 as Les simulachres and historiees faces de la mort; since the book's great success Holbein's series has been consistently in print)

Black Letter Press, via WWW m June 14, 2022 (Hans Holbein - Der Totentanz, translated by Jan Düsterhöft; Holbein drew the Bilder des Todes ("pictures of death") in Basel, in the last few years before 1526--the year in which the woodcutter Lützelburger died; after his death, his printing blocks, which could only be partially completed, ended up in the possession of his customer the publisher Melchior Trechsel in Lyon; maybe out of fear for the offence the candour, with which the pictures denounce social and political grievances, might cause, he published the woodblock printings only twelve years later under the title Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort)

The Dance of Death,, via WWW, June 14, 2022 (Hans Holbein's Dance of Death; Hans Holbein the Younger moved to Basel (Switzerland) in 1514 where he acquired fame from his woodcuts; the woodcuts must have been produced in Basel between 1522 (when Hans Lützelburger came to Basel) and before 1526--the year Lützelburger died; for unknown reasons--presumably because of the religious and social criticism--twelve years passed before Holbein's great dance of death was published in book form. there still exists a number of printed sheets, the so-called "printer's proofs", with German titles; it wasn't before 1538 that the 41 woodcuts were published by the brothers Melchior and Gaspard Trechsel in Lyon under the title "Les simulachres & Historiées Faces de la Mort, avtant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées; gone were the German headlines and instead each picture had been furnished with one or two Bible quotes at the top and a quatrain by Gilles Corrozet)