Retzch, Moritz, painter and engraver, born at Dresden, where he became a professor of Painting; is famous for his etchings illustrative of Goethe's “Faust,” of certain of Shakespeare's plays, as well as of Fouqué's “Tales”; the “Chess-Players” and “Man versus Satan,” which is considered his masterpiece (1779‒1857).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Retz, Gilles de * Reuchlin, Johann