{"id":22211,"date":"2020-01-31T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=22211"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:26:07","slug":"renaissance-etchings-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/renaissance-etchings-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance etchings exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/etchingssmall.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from a Hopfer etching\" class=\"wp-image-22215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/etchingssmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/etchingssmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All you need for groundbreaking art is a metal plate, some acid, and a big dose of inspiration. So it was some five hundred years ago when the first etchings appeared on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Renaissance of Etching &#8211; from D\u00fcrer to Bruegel<\/em> at the Albertina museum reveals the artistry and imagination of the early pioneers of this intaglio printmaking technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Features works by the likes of D\u00fcrer, Altdorfer, Parmigianino, and others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Around 125 etchings on display<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Feb 12 &#8211; Oct 18, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Standard museum entrance ticket includes the exhibition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina\/\">Albertina visitor &amp; tickets info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Current art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From D\u00fcrer to Bruegel<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapecannonduerer.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape with a Cannon by Albrecht D\u00fcrer\" class=\"wp-image-49379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapecannonduerer.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapecannonduerer-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s <em>Landscape with a Cannon<\/em> from 1518. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating designs on metal plates using acids had already established itself for decorative armour when a chap named Daniel Hopfer had a bright idea sometime around the end of the 15th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historians believe Hopfer was the first to apply the same principle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/prints-printmaking\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"56749\">printmaking<\/a> and use etched metal plates to print designs on paper. And so the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/prints-printmaking\/#etching\">etching<\/a> was born; the concept soon caught on among various artists of the Renaissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first 70 or so years this technological development form the core of a new exhibition at the Albertina: <em>The Renaissance of Etching: from D\u00fcrer to Bruegel<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main attraction of etching lay in the (relatively) quick and easy way to create images and prints. Which is why various important personalities took to the technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Bruegel (the Elder), for example, worked with etchings. (If you want to catch his famous paintings, head over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/bruegel-collection\/\">Kunsthistorisches Museum<\/a> after your Albertina visit.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albrect D\u00fcrer &#8211; he of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/durer-hare\/\">Hare<\/a> fame &#8211; also used etchings, though he produced very few and later favoured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/prints-printmaking\/#engraving\">engraving<\/a> for prints (same concept, but uses sharp tools to create the design directly in the metal plate).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapealtdorfer.jpg\" alt=\"A landscape by Altdorfer\" class=\"wp-image-49380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapealtdorfer.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landscapealtdorfer-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Albrecht Altdorfer&#8217;s <em>Landscape with a Double Spruce<\/em> from around 1506 &#8211; 1522 can be viewed in the exhibition. Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u00fcrer&#8217;s 1518 <em>Landscape with a Cannon<\/em> etching (his last) is one of around 125 works on display at the Albertina, alongside printing plates, drawings and a couple of pieces of beautifully-etched armour, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A series of rooms present these etchings by location (for example, French etchings) or individual artist, allowing you to raise suitably-impressed eyebrows at how mere lines, dots and hatchings generate light, shape and texture in the subsequent printed work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found myself drawn to two versions of D\u00fcrer&#8217;s 1515 <em>Agony in the Garden<\/em>, one an etching and one D\u00fcrer&#8217;s own pen and ink version. The simple use of dark strokes and white space creates almost unnaturally bright light around Christ&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other famous artists featured include, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, better known as Parmigianino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen &#8211; the man behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/vermeyen-cartoons\/\">Vermeyen cartoons<\/a> (also in the Kunsthistorisches Museum)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Albrecht Altdorfer, the pioneering landscape painter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Altdorfer inspired Augustin Hirschvogel, whose 1552 map of Vienna is a delight in itself, but more so given the copper plates sit right next to it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"388\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parmigiano.jpg\" alt=\"Melancholy by Parmigianino\" class=\"wp-image-49381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parmigiano.jpg 388w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/parmigiano-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Parmigianino&#8217;s <em>Woman Resting<\/em> from the early 16th century. Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can even see Daniel Hopfer&#8217;s own etchings, for example his <em>Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death<\/em> from (probably) the opening decade of the 16th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title should perhaps be <em>Woman and Attendant About to be Surprised by Death<\/em> (either that or the two ladies are remarkably relaxed about the demonic creatures behind them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition (a cooperation with New York&#8217;s The Met) runs from February 12th until October 18th, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no separate ticketing. Just see the etchings with your normal entrance ticket to the Albertina or by using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/vienna-pass-review\/\">Vienna Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for travel tips in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina\/\">Albertina overview<\/a> article. The museum is very central, right next to the State Opera House and at the back of the Hofburg Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1zfWanf5rPBbnTLLDuah2uixe-Nw\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you need for groundbreaking art is a metal plate, some acid, and a big dose of inspiration. So it was some five hundred years ago when the first etchings appeared on paper. 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