Portret van Benedict Carpzov
Johann Dürr
1653
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
284; 172
About this artwork
height 284 mm x width 172 mm
About the Artist
Johann Dürr · 1600–1663
Johann Dürr (1600–1663) was a German copperplate engraver who worked primarily in Weimar during the mid-17th century, producing prints for court and scholarly patrons during the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War. Born in 1600, Dürr's career spanned one of the most devastating periods in German history, when religious conflict and military campaigns brought widespread destruction to German...