View of Steyr on Enns
Hanns Lautensack
1554
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11.1 × 16.9 cm (4 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.) (trimmed)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.560
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hanns Lautensack · 1515–1566
Hanns Lautensack, born in 1524 in Bamberg, Germany, was the son of Paul Lautensack, a noted painter and organist. Alongside his brother Heinrich, a goldsmith, the family relocated to Nuremberg in 1527, where Hanns immersed himself in the vibrant artistic milieu of the city. There, he likely apprenticed with a goldsmith, honing skills in fine metalwork that informed his precise etching technique, t...