Landscape with a Road to a Castle on an Island in a River
Medium
etching
Dimensions
image: 17 × 11.9 cm · sheet: 17 × 11.9 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
1993.221
Tags
male
About this artwork
Like Augustin Hirschvogel, Hanns Lautensack populated his images with traces of human activity that serve to characterize the features of the land rather than suggest a narrative. In several of his etchings, Lautensack used a vertical, rather than horizontal, format, emphasizing the strong verticals of mountainous terrain. This verticality was a particular feature of artists working in the Danube River valley and not often repeated by landscape artists in later centuries.