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Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Landscape with a Road to a Castle on an Island in a River

1554

Hanns Lautensack

(German, 1524–1566)
Germany
etching
Image: 17 x 11.9 cm (6 11/16 x 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 17 x 11.9 cm (6 11/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary 1993.221
Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 19
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The print demonstrates the qualities of etching that appealed to Lautensack, namely, the freely drawn lines and spontaneity that was similar to drawing.

Description

Like Augustin Hirschvogel, Hanns Lautensack populated his images with traces of human activity that serve to characterize the features of the land rather than suggest a narrative. In several of his etchings, Lautensack used a vertical, rather than horizontal, format, emphasizing the strong verticals of mountainous terrain. This verticality was a
particular feature of artists working in the Danube River valley and not often repeated by landscape artists in later centuries.
  • ?-1949/1952
    Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398, stamped)
    1994
    with R. M. Light and Co., Santa Barbara
  • “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 167 www.jstor.org
  • Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).
    Gallery rotation (Gallery 114): April 13, 2015 -
    CMA, 1996: "Landscape in Detail," September 10-November 3, 1996, no catalogue
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