Ulrich Grundherr
Andreas Kohl
mid 17th-century
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 22.4 × 15 cm (8 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.14.562
About the Artist
Andreas Kohl · 1624–1657
Andreas Kohl (1624–1657) was a German engraver working in Nuremberg during the Baroque period whose brief career produced accomplished portrait engravings of his contemporaries. Born in Nuremberg in 1624 and dying there in 1657 at just thirty-three years old, Kohl's professional activity coincided with the latter part of the devastating Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the early post-war period o...