Stephan Michelspacher
Stephan Michelspacher was a tyrolese printmaker active in Augsburg during the early seventeenth century.
Michelspacher was a paracelsian physician living in Tyrol. Alinda van Ackooy has suggested that as a Lutheran he left Tyrol in around 1613 owing to the Catholic Renewal promoted by the Habsburgs. Augsburg also was a centre of the print industry, in which Michelspacher was to participate.
In Augsburg on becoming a printmaker he published Cabala, Spiegel der Kunst und Natur: in Alchymia in 1615. The book is noted for its selection of hermetic inspired prints.
He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, Pinax microcosmographicus.
