Monday, July 6, 2026

Aldegrever

Heinrich Aldegrever
Self Portrait at age 35
1537
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Standard-Bearer before a Seascape
1540
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Man wreathed with Vine Leaves
1528
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Ornamental Panel with Grotesques
1550
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Orpheus and Eurydice
1528
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Portrait of Bernt Knipperdolling
1536
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Luna
(series, The Seven Planets)
1533
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Mercury
(series, The Seven Planets)
1533
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Susanna and the Elders
1555
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Lot and his Daughters
1555
engraving
Kunsthalle Mannheim

Heinrich Aldegrever
Expulsion from Paradise
1540
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena
1530
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Design for Dagger Sheath
with the Whore of Babylon

1528
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever
Allegorical Figure - Pax
1549
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Allegorical Figure - Pauperitas
1549
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Heinrich Aldegrever
Allegorical Figure - Concordia
1549
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Heinrich Aldegrever (1502-ca. 1555) – Accomplished German draftsman and engraver, a brittle imitator of Dürer, specializing in tiny highly finished prints mainly of religious and allegorical subjects.

– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000) 

[a bit of backhanded sneering here at honest old Aldegrever – who merits a kinder tone]