Kunz von der Rosen

c. 1518

Daniel Hopfer

Associated Names
Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

The image shows a man standing with his hands on his hips. He has a strong expression with thick, slightly curled hair under a decorated cap. He wears a quilted garment with a thorn-like pattern, patterned pants, and a belt holding a sword or dagger. The background features an engraved cloudy sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) possibly with drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 29.4 x 21.5 cm (11 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1944.5.124

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 97, State iia/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1949

  • Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1956

  • Life and Lives in the Renaissance, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and Columbia Museum of Art, SC, 1956, no. 37.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 22.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

2000

  • The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 55.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 97, iia/iv.

2009

  • Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 103, ii/vi.

Wikidata ID

Q65019443

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