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| attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with monastery in wooded valley 1536 drawing British Museum -extensive-commentary |
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| attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with water-mill and other buildings with hills in the background ca. 1540 drawing British Museum |
Augustin Hirschvogel (1503-1553) - Son of the leading glass-painter in Nuremberg, Velt Hirschvogel (1461-1525) who worked after designs by Dürer and Hans von Kulmbach. Augustin Hirschvogel worked with his father until the latter's death, after which he established his own workshop producing glassware in the Venetian style. From August 1536 until c. 1540 he was active in Lalbach (Llubljana), for some of the time as a maiolica painter, and established his reputation as a cartographer, the profession for which he was best known in his own day. This work included a map of the Turkish borders made in 1539 for the Nuremberg council, and a number of commissions for the Emperor Charles V. He settled in Vienna in 1544, where he pioneered the use of triangulation in maps of Vienna, made for the defence of the city after the Turkish siege there in 1543, which were completed in 1545. His most impressive artistic achievement was around 300 etchings, executed between 1543 and 1553. The majority were made for book illustrations, but he also produced ornament prints and a notable group of thirty-five landscape etchings, which reveal the influence of Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolf Huber. Together with Hans Lautensack (1524-1564/65), Hirschvogel developed Altdorfer's innovations in landscape etching. These two artists were responsible for broadening the sphere of influence of Altdorfer's style, as their landscape prints were produced in larger numbers than those of Altdorfer."
– curator's notes from the British Museum
"In his fundamental essay on landscape painting, M.J. Friedländer devoted some pages to the emergence of this type of 'specialist' – the artist who no longer carries out varied commissions from individual patrons but works for a market of anonymous consumers, in the hope that his wares will find favour with the public."
– E.H. Gombrich, from The Renaissance Theory of Art and the Rise of Landscape, first published in 1950, reprinted in the author's essay collection Norm and Form (London: Phaidon Press, 1966)
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Duck-shooting in a landscape 1545 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel River landscape with two buildings connected by a bridge 1545 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with four trees and a church 1545 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with brook and ruins 1545 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Seascape with Jonah and the whale 1546 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel River landscape with village 1546 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel River landscape with large tree 1546 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with lake with sailing vessels and a castle on a rock 1546 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel View of Passau 1546 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel River landscape with a chapel on a hill 1549 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with lake 1549 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Landscape with lake and a castle on a rock, with another castle in the distance before 1553 etching British Museum |