Portret van Ortolph Fomann

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plaatrand: hoogte 148 mm x breedte 96 mm

Art Historical Context

**Portrait of Ortolph Fomann** *Johann Dürr, 1634–1663, Engraving, 148 × 96 mm* Step into the intricate world of 17th portraiture with Johann Dürr's *Portret van Ortolphomann*, a finely executed engraving capturing the likeness of its namesake subject. Created during the Baroque era, this small-scale print (measuring just 148 mm high by 96 mm) exemplifies the technical precision of engraving, a intaglio technique where lines are incised into a metal plate with a burin, inked, and pressed onto paper. Dürr, a German engraver active in this period, specialized in such portraits, making images ...

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...