Portrait of Georg Roggenbach
Hanns Lautensack
1554
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 25.7 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3068
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...