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River Landscape with Rocks at Left and Right
Augustin Hirschvogel (German, 1503–1553)
1546
- Medium
- etching
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- Germany
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
