His productivity was very remarkable, as may be gathered from the statement of one of his pupils, who said that the drawings he made during a period of four years would have filled a hay wagon. A large number of his original drawings are in the
Berlin print room. About 1,500 prints are attributed to him. He was one of the last major producers of woodcuts for books, as during his career engravings were gradually taking over that role. Although like most woodcut artists, he normally let a specialist
formschneider cut the block to his drawing, he occasionally included both a cutter's knife and a quill pen in his signature on prints, suggesting he sometimes cut his own blocks. Amman was the artist for
Wenzel Jamnitzer's book
Perspectiva corporum regularium (1568). A series of
engravings by Amman of the kings of
France, with short biographies, appeared in
Frankfurt in 1576. He also executed many of the
woodcut illustrations for the
Bible published at Frankfurt by Sigismund Feierabend, and for a topographical survey of
Bavaria by
Philipp Apian. Another serial work, the
Panoplia Omnium Liberalium Mechanicarum et Seden-tariarum Artium Genera Continens, containing 115 plates, is of great value. Amman's drawing is correct and spirited, and his delineation of the details of costume is minute and accurate. Paintings in oil and on glass are attributed to him, but none have been identified. == Death ==