Hanns Lautensack

Self-portrait of Hanns Lautensack (1554)

Hanns Lautensack (also: Hans Sebald Lautensack, * around 1520 in Bamberg ; † around 1565 in Vienna ) was a German engraver and etcher .

life and work

Signature on the Steyr view

Hanns Lautensack was a son of Paul Lautensack . Like his brother Heinrich , Hanns received his training from a goldsmith. Although he called himself “Pictor”, no paintings by him are known. His early works are based on the graphics of the Nuremberg " Kleinmeister ". Later on, landscape elements are consciously incorporated into the portraits. Lautensack received the essential suggestions for pure landscape representations from Albrecht Altdorfer and Wolf Huber . In 1552 he provided topographically accurate location surveys of Nuremberg and 1554 of Steyr . In 1554 Lautensack moved to Vienna . Here he made portraits of Archduke Karl of Styria, Archduke Maximilian of Austria and King Ferdinand I as well as important cityscapes that were influenced by the Danube School in their early work . Lautensack now included biblical representations in his landscapes.

The graphic work is kept in the collections of Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Braunschweig and Vienna. Lautensack's engravings and etchings can be found in the Albertina . The British Museum also has an extensive collection of Lautensack's works .

Work

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  Paul Lautensack (1552, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , Braunschweig)

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  View of Steyr (1554, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum)

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  Graphic in the Hermitage St. Petersburg

literature

• Annegrit Schmitt :  Hanns Lautensack. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 729 ( digitized version ).
• Annegrit Schmitt: Hanns Lautensack. Nuremberg 1957.
• Joseph Eduard Wessely:  Lautensack . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 72 f.
• Entry on Hanns Lautensack in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Web links

Commons : Hanns Lautensack  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Collection Hanns Lautensack in the British Museum
• Virtual Kupferstichkabinett Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum accessed on March 24, 2012