Heinrich Lautensack (goldsmith)

Excerpt from the title page of the work from 1568

Heinrich Lautensack (born February 3, 1522 in Bamberg , † 1568 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German goldsmith and painter.

Heinrich Lautensack was a son of Paul Lautensack . In 1527 he came to Nuremberg with his family . From 1532 he received training from the goldsmith Melchior Baier (1495–1577) for six years . In 1550 Lautensack moved to Frankfurt, where he married Lucretia Ort on July 2, 1550.

Heinrich Lautensack was best known for his textbook on drawing perspective, published in 1564.

Works

• The circle and Richtscheyts, also the perspectives and proportions of men and horses, brief but thorough instruction of the correct use. With many beautiful figures, all young people who are approaching and other lovers of this art, as goldsmiths, painters, sculptors, stonemasons, carpenters, etc. actually for-educated, never seen in the truck before, but now given anew for the first time . Franckfurt, Feyerabend and Lautensack / Raben, 1564 ( digitized )

literature

• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . 7th volume, Munich 1839, p. 347.
• Manfred Grieb: Nuremberg artist lexicon . Volume 2, Munich 2007, p. 896. ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3
• Joseph Eduard Wessely:  Lautensack . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 72 f. (Family item)

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Lautensack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Link to the digitized perspective book by Heinrich Lautensack