Landscape with a Brook
Artist: Augustin Hirschvogel (German, 1503-1553)
Date: 1545
Dimensions:
1 5/8 x 7 7/16 in.
Medium: Engraving and etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 1950.290
Label Text:Augustin Hirshvogel produced 35 small-scale landscapes as part of an output of approximately 300 prints. His printmaking was perhaps a result of a misfortune not of his making. He originally trained as a stained glass painter in his father’s workshop. Unfortunately for him, Hirschvogel’s native city of Nuremberg accepted the Protestant Reformation in 1525, resulting in a rapid decline of demand for stained glass because of Protestant reticence over religious imagery in churches. In efforts to sustain himself and his family, Hirschvogel eventually moved to Vienna and developed skills as a mathematician and cartographer. It was as a cartographer that he began making prints. Interestingly, he developed a new surveying system involving triangulation that gave him notoriety.
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