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AUGUSTIN HIRSCHVOGEL (1503-1553) River Landscape with Rocks at Left and Right
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AUGUSTIN HIRSCHVOGEL (1503-1553) River Landscape with Rocks at Left and Right
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AUGUSTIN HIRSCHVOGEL (1503-1553)
River Landscape with Rocks at Left and Right
etching
1546
on laid paper, without watermark
a very fine impression of this rare landscape
printing very strongly and clearly, with dark accents and great depth
with fine vertical wiping marks at centre and an inky plate edge above
with small margins
generally in very good condition
Plate: 5 7⁄8 x 7 in. (148 x 178 mm.)
Sheet: 6 x 7 3⁄16 in. (152 x 183 mm.)Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (without mark, see Lugt 2323); their duplicate sale, R. N. Ketterer, Stuttgart, 26-28 October 1949, lot 988 ('Abdruck von hervorragender Schönheit und Frische, sowie von tadelloser Erhaltung. Eine bei Schwarz nur in wenigen Exemplaren nachgewiesene Landschaft') (Mk. 1,980).
Private Collection, Germany (acquired at the above sale through Edward Traudtscholdt of C. G. Boerner, Leipzig); then by descent.
With C. G. Boerner, New York.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1989; then by descent to the present owners.Bartsch, Schwarz 63; Hollstein 36The Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Prints of 5 Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, 1990-91, p. 200, n. 187.Augustin Hirschvogel (1503-1553) came from a family of glass painters in Nuremberg. He trained in the family craft, then set up a workshop as a majolica painter in his native city. In the late 1530's we find him in the Balkans working as a cartographer for Emperor Ferdinand I. Having established close connections to the Imperial Court, he finally moved to Vienna, where he lived permanently from 1544. It was probably there that he started decorating arms and armour and began to work in the new technique of etching. He was one of the first printmakers of the German Renaissance to create landscape prints, views of buildings and scenery, without any religious or allegorical content, and indeed the first to execute them in pure etching. He grasped and took full advantage of the spontaneity of the etched line and his scenes are imbued with an almost naïve immediacy, which was new to the medium. He thus stands at the beginning of a long tradition, lasting well into the 19th century, which considered etching as the natural printmaking method for the depiction of landscapes. The present print is almost a caricature of a 'romantic' German landscape, with a little castle or chapel on every rock and hilltop. The exceptional printing quality and condition of this sheet make it an outstanding example of the prints of this highly original artist.
Very few impressions of Augustin Hirschvogel's landscapes appear to have survived and they are great rarities on today's art market. Hollstein records a total of 13 impressions of this plate in public collections.