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Vladimir Denkstein, Michael Kitson, Translation : D. Orpington

HOLLAR : DRAWINGS.

London, Orbis Publishing, 1979,

40,00 €

Erik Tonen Books

(Antwerpen, Belgio)

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Autore
Vladimir Denkstein, Michael Kitson, Translation : D. Orpington
Editori
London, Orbis Publishing, 1979
Soggetto
Duitse kunst, German art, German art, German art

Descrizione

Bound, sand-coloured cloth, illustrated dustjacket in colour,310 x 240 x 35 mm., 216pp., profoundly illustrated in colour and b/w. ISBN 9780856132315. After his family was ruined by the Sack of Prague in the Thirty Years' War, the young Hollar, who had been destined for the legal profession, decided to become an artist. The earliest of his works that have come down to us are dated 1625 and 1626; they are small plates, and one of them is a copy of a "Virgin and Child" by D rer, whose influence upon Hollar's work was always great. In 1627 he was in Frankfurt where he was apprenticed to the renowned engraver Matth us Merian.[1] In 1630 he lived in Strasbourg, Mainz and Koblenz, where Hollar portrayed the towns, castles, and landscapes of the Middle Rhine Valley. In 1633 he moved to Cologne
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