Anton Woensam, c. (1493-1496 - c. 1541),

• Also known as Anton von Worms.
• Was a German painter, wood cutter, graphic artist and book illustrator.
• From 1520 he studied works by Ambrosius Holbein, Albrecht Dürer and Urs Graf the Elder.
• In that year 1530, at the latest, he must have begun preparations for his main work, the Cologne cityscape from 1531.
• The "Great View of Cologne" is a monumental, extra-wide and detailed illustration of the buildings in Cologne at that time as a panorama picture on a woodcut, consisting of nine sheets joined together.
• It was the late medieval Rhine panorama with its over 16 gates and several defensive towers in Cologne's old town.
• Forty-five paintings and over 500 woodcuts are attributed to him.
• The displayed painting is a crop from The Crucifixion, c. 1540.
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