Abstract
Relatively young, Sebastian Brant was painted in profile by an unknown artist. The oil painting located today in Karlsruhe is maybe the only realistic Brant portrait and might be a work from Hans Baldung. It was used in 1587 as model for the woodcut of the Icones edited by Nicolaus Reusner. Most of the Brant iconography depends on this woodcut. It bears little resemblance to the copper engraving made in 1631 by Jacob van der Heyden at the expense of “J.J.B.”, which allegedly represents the satirist. His great-great-grandson Johann Jacob Brand could be the purchaser. The anonymous old man drawn in 1520 or 1521 by Albrecht Durer is probably not Sebastian Brant, as generally suspected, but rather a Dutchman from the circle around the court painter Bernard von Orley. Besides these portraits, the Ship of Fools and other prints from Brant contain woodcuts with stereotypical self-portrayals.
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