Word: hirschvogel
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...strange that such a penetration into a new field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...
...Little Masters" are represented by a few prints each, including early etchings by Hirschvogel, Lautensack, and Hopfer. Lucas Cranach's work on both copper and wood is shown, and there are woodcuts designed by Hans Holbein. The proofs from his Dance of Death are fine impressions, and the tiny pictures with their few lines show the master a great draughtsman and composer. the exhibition will last for several weeks...
...Fogg Art Museum has recently made several important acquisitions by gift and loan which are now on exhibition in the print-room. These include a drawing by the sixteenth century German master Altdorfer, and an etching by Hirschvogel, representing a man in armor. The latter is a very beautiful impression of an excessively rare print. There is no record of its ever having appeared before at a public sale, and no impression of it exists in the British Museum...
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