Landscape with Three Men
Hanns Lautensack
c. 1558/1559
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5329
About the Artist
Hanns Lautensack
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...