Jun 20, 2006

River Landscape with Three Bare Willow Trees at Right and a Long Winding Wooden Bridge at Center Leading to a Village

River Landscape with Three Bare Willow Trees at Right and a Long Winding Wooden Bridge at Center Leading to a Village

1546

Augustin Hirschvogel

(German, 1503–1553)

Etching

Image: 13.9 x 21 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 13.9 x 21 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1953.157

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein XIIIA .178.48

Did you know?

An early adopter of etching, Augustin Hirschvogel was among the first artists in Germany to use a copper, rather than iron, etching plate.

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.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Etching
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print
Medium: 
Etching
Credit line: 
Dudley P. Allen Fund

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