River Landscape with Rocks at Left and Right

1546

Augustin Hirschvogel

(German, 1503–1553)

Culture

Germany

Medium

etching

Measurements

Image: 14.6 x 17.4 cm (5 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.); Sheet: 14.6 x 17.4 cm (5 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund 1963.471

Catalogue raisonné

Hollstein XIIIA .169.36

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Hirschvogel's etched landscape hints at the presence of human activity, yet no humans can be seen.

Description

Within a decade, Augustin Hirschvogel and Hanns Lautensack were aware of the landscapes by Wolfgang Huber and Albrecht Altdorfer and began to expand their artistic vocabulary. Hirschvogel probably made this group of etchings after traveling down the Danube from Nuremberg, through Regensburg and Passau, to his residence in Vienna. The many buildings, cultivated fields, and roads emphasize human activity and its mark on the landscape but always in the service of articulating a particular topography. Hirschvogel’s etchings found an international audience, informing the development of the landscape genre as far away as Italy and the Netherlands.