Augustin Hirschvogel

Augustin Hirschvogel (* 1503 in Nuremberg, † March 5, 1553 in Vienna ) was a German artist, surveyor and cartographer of the Renaissance.

Life and work

Deer Bird was the son of the famous Nuremberg glass painter Veit Hirschvogel the Elder (1461-1525), who in Nuremberg had almost a monopoly on the manufacture of glass windows for churches. In the workshop of the father learned and worked Augustin and his brother Vitus the Younger.

When the Reformation in Nuremberg gained a foothold and were dropped the lucrative stained glass windows for the Catholic Church as a source of income, Augustin deer bird has his own business and have been looking after other fields of activity. Around 1530 he owned together with the Nuremberg pottery Hanns nickel and Oswald Reinhart own workshop, decorated and glazed earthenware jars manufactured. In Nuremberg prepared jars, although they were not necessarily derived from deer bird workshop, called " deer bird jugs ".

From about 1536 Deer Bird worked as a surveyor. In 1544 he settled in Vienna. As a cartographer, he traveled extensively for the royal court in Vienna, among others, the Roman-German king and later emperor Ferdinand I.. Hirschvogel charted almost all of South Eastern Europe. He created, among other things, the first planimetric and topographic map of the city of Vienna and a circular plan, which is now on display at the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. It has long been suspected that he was the first applied the method of triangulation to measure terrain, and for a specially developed measuring instrument. This thesis has been disproved recently (Ref.: Fischer 1999)

During this time, the versatile artist also created engravings and a large number of etchings, including landscape views and portraits, such as Paracelsus. His landscape paintings are influenced by the Danube School. As an illustrator deer bird created a biblical typology that Concordantz Old Testament and News ( 1550).

Hirsch bird is also known as the Master of the Windsor - crucifixion, a scene of the Passion of Christ.

Hirsch bird contribution to the science of geometry was his textbook A aigentliche VND gründtliche anweysung, particularly in the Geometria but, like all Regulated, VND Vnregulierte corpora, placed in the Ground, VND in the Perspectiff brought to auffzogen with Jren lines ( 1543).

The deer bird alley in Vienna's Floridsdorf was named in 1894 by Augustin deer bird.

Resurrection of Lazarus

Gesüdete map of Austria

Woman and Satyr

Pictures of Augustin Hirschvogel

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