View of Nuremberg from the West [right section]

1552

Hanns Lautensack

Associated Names
Hanns Lautensack

Artist, German, 1524 - 1561/1566

The image shows a panoramic view of a village landscape from an elevated vantage point. The horizon features village buildings and church steeples. The style is detailed and intricate, with fine line work suggesting engraving. Figures are visible in the fields, which are neatly cultivated. The village is densely packed with buildings and a church tower on the horizon. The color palette is monochromatic in shades of brown and grey, highlighting the linework and composition. Above the townscape, a decorative cartouche displays text in an elaborate script, surrounded by ornate embellishments and faces.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.1183

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 58

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1969

  • Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 104, repro.

1983

  • Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, no. 164, repro.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1978 (vol. XXI), no. 5.

1957

  • Schmitt, Annegrit. Hans Lautensack. Nuremberg: Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, 1957, no. 51.

Wikidata ID

Q65508693

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