Market Place, Nuremberg
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drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 19.6 x 13.3 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8919
Art Historical Context
**Market Place, Nuremberg** (1928) by Louis Rosenberg captures the bustling heart of one of Germany's most storied cities. Rosenberg, a masterful American printmaker (1883–5) trained in Paris and influenced by James McNeill Whistler, specialized in intricate architectural scenes from his European travels. This drypoint etching depicts Nuremberg's historic market square—a vibrant hub since medieval times, ringed half-timbered buildings and iconic Frauenkirche church—evoking the everyday life of the Weimar Republic era, just before the upheavals of the 1930s. The medium of drypoint is key to it...
About the Artist
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Louis Conrad Rosenberg (1890–1983), born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles and Hannah Rosenberg, emerged as one of America's foremost architectural etchers, blending his training as an architect with masterful printmaking. A precocious draftsman from childhood, he apprenticed under T. Chapell Brown in Portland starting at age sixteen in 1906, advancing to draftsman under mentor Ellis Fuller Lawrence...