Hendrick Goltzius

Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (German: [ˈgɔltsi̯ʊs]; Dutch: [ˈɣɔltsʲiœs]; January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his sophisticated technique, technical mastership and "exuberance" of his compositions. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, Goltzius "was the last professional engraver who drew with the authority of a good painter and the last who invented many pictures for others to copy".^[1] In the middle of his life he also began to produce paintings.

This article is about the painter and engraver. For more uses, see Goltzius (disambiguation).

Hendrick Goltzius

Hendrick Goltz

January/February 1558

Bracht, Duchy of Jülich, Holy Roman Empire

(1617-01-01)1 January 1617 (aged 58–59)

Haarlem, Dutch Republic

Printmaker, draftsman, painter

Use of the burin tool for engraving

Northern Mannerism

Rotterdam^[7]

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Austin^[9]

Blanton Museum of Art

Ann Arbor^[10]

University of Michigan Museum of Art

New York City^[11]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

London^[13]

British Museum

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Most major print rooms will have a group of Goltzius's many engravings.

Horatius Cocles, from The Roman Heroes, 1586

Icarus (1588) from the series The four disgracers

Engraving of the Farnese Hercules, c. 1598

Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze), 1600–03, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portrait of the Shell Collector Jan Govertsen van der Aer, 1603, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Jupiter and Antiope, 1612, National Gallery, London

The Fall of Man, 1616, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Hercules Killing Cacus, a chiaroscuro woodcut, 1588

Diua Dei genitrix, et cura fielelis Iosepf. Omnia pa fcentem pa feunt hatea fibus efcis., 1589, pen and black ink on laid paper

A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, pen and brown ink on laid paper.

The Great Hercules, 1589

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Goltzius, Hendrik". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 227.

public domain

Mayor, A. Hyatt (1971). Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. New York City: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 0-691-00326-2.

ISBN

(June 2014). "An Interpretation of Four Woodcut Landscapes by Hendrick Goltzius". Print Quarterly. XXXI (2): 144–155.

Cohn, Marjorie B.

Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870993569. (see index).

Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

. Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 19 August 2008.

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