The Good Samaritan
Hanns Lautensack
1544/66
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
19.5 × 29.5 cm (7 11/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
106552
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Hanns Lautensack · 1515–1566
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...