# MASTER of the Playing Cards

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## Artist

- Profession: graphic artist
- School: German

## Biography

German engraver. The most accomplished and influential member of the first generation of engravers, he is named after a series of engravings with number cards and figure cards arranged in suits of flowers, birds, deer, wild men and beasts of prey, preserved largely in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden. From the numerous copies of the suit symbols in datable manuscripts, his cards can be dated shortly before 1440.

## Related artworks

- [King of Wild Men](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-playing-cards-r342281b14dbf64/king-of-wild-men-rc7c7ad4bb27fd9>)
- [Queen of Wild Men](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-playing-cards-r342281b14dbf64/queen-of-wild-men-r1395b7984b01c5>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)