Wenceslaus Hollar
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 347 years ago |
Date of birth | July 13,1607 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Prague |
Czechia | |
Date of died | March 25,1677 |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Periods | Baroque |
Known for | Etching |
Job | Illustrator |
Cartographer | |
printmaker | |
Books | London Before the Fire: A Grand Panorama |
The Four Seasons | |
The Principles of Drawing: An Easy and Familiar Method for the Improvement of Youth in the Practice of that Useful Art - Being a Compleat Drawing Book | |
The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale. . . : With an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Published Works, an Index to His Manuscript Collections, Copies of Monumental Inscriptions to the Memory of the Dugdale Family, and Heraldic Grants and Pedigrees | |
The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale . . . : With an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Published Works, an Index to His Manuscript Collections, Copies of Monumental Inscriptions to the Memory of the Dugdale Family, and Heraldic. . . | |
The Dance of Death, from the Original Designs of Hans Holbein, Illustrated with Fifty-two Wood Cuts [by J. Bewick], Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick | |
Period by artworks | Baroque |
Place of burial | St Margaret's Church, London, United Kingdom |
Works | Boar and Mastiff |
Prague | |
A Muff in Five Views | |
Dead Mole | |
The church by the water | |
Nine sheep | |
Bonn | |
Cologne and Deutz | |
On view | Rijksmuseum |
National Gallery of Art | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 642293 |
Wenceslaus Hollar Life story
Wenceslaus Hollar was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century, who spent much of his life in England. He is known to German speakers as Wenzel Hollar; and to Czech speakers as Václav Hollar. He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings.