River Landscape with Three Bare Willow Trees at Right and a Long Winding Wooden Bridge at Center Leading to a Village
Medium
etching
Dimensions
image: 13.9 × 21 cm · sheet: 13.9 × 21 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
1953.157
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Within a decade, Augustin Hirschvogel and Hanns Lautensack were aware of the landscapes by Wolfgang Huber and Albrecht Altdorfer and began to expand their artistic vocabulary. Hirschvogel probably made this group of etchings after traveling down the Danube from Nuremberg, through Regensburg and Passau, to his residence in Vienna. The many buildings, cultivated fields, and roads emphasize human activity and its mark on the landscape but always in the service of articulating a particular topograph...