Ferdinand I
Hanns Lautensack
1556
Medium
etching
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 35.7 x 27.2 cm (14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1954.12.85
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...