Hans Forster

Hans Forster

Vienna 1565 (?), 1573

Woodcut sheet, totally 16 pictures with size 7,7x5,1 cm, in Spielkartenmuseum Leinfelden-Echterdingen

Hoffmann (Welt der Spielkarten, 1972 - Abb. 38 a + p. 167)

Forster is noted as author of a sheet of the Wiener Landsknechtsbildes II, Wien, 1560-1570,, and in Albin Czerny: [Spielkarten von Hans Forster in der Stiftsbibliothek St. Florian], in: Mitt. der k.k. Central-Commission zur Erforschung u. Erhaltung der Kunst- u. hist. Denkmale XIII (1887), CXIX f.. In a facsimile deck of Hans Forster (1573) the product was united with a 55 page booklet by Rudolf von Leyden describing the game of Karnöffel in English and German, published by the Heimeran Verlag, Vienna, in 1978. The booklet of van Leyden is variously cited as best source about the game Karnöffel.