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Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Niklaus Manuel , c. He used "Manuel", the given name of his father, as his surname and used "Deutsch", as the German equivalent of the surname Alleman , as an additional appellation, signing his works with the initials NMD. He is first recorded in , when he married Katharina Frisching, daughter of Hans Frisching, a former Bernese reeve and member of the city council Kleiner Rat.

Niklaus Manuel and Katharina Frisching had six children.

Niklaus Manuel was a painter, soldier, writer, and statesman, and a notable Swiss representative of the ideas of the Italian and German Renaissance and the.

From , Niklaus Manuel was a member of the city parliament Grosser Rat. He is first recorded as a painter in the employment of the city in Aside from Holbein he is the major representative of Renaissance painting in Switzerland. In , he bought the house at Gerechtigkeitsgasse 72 which remained in possession of the Manuel family until the 17th century.

In , he entered mercenary service as the secretary of Albrecht von Stein , participating in the French campaign in the War of the League of Cambrai. His famous danse macabre on the wall of the Dominican Abbey in Berne was begun in or ; this work was destroyed in , but a copy by Albrecht Kauw is extant. Niklaus Manuel's latest signed works date from around , after which time he dedicated himself to literary production.

He used a drawing of a Swiss degen alongside the initials NMD as his mark; the Swiss degen also appears on his literary manuscripts, and schwitzerdegen appears as his author's pseudonym in some of his printed works. In he once again entered service with Albrecht von Stein in a campaign in Lombardy, and was wounded at Novara. He also participated in the Battle of Bicocca of 27 April.

He composed a satirical song against the German Landsknechts who defeated the Swiss mercenaries in this battle. After the campaign, he was also harshly critical of the Holy See, specifically the late Pope Leo X and his militaristic policy in the Italian Wars.