Frans Hogenberg
Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590) was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker. He was born in Mechelen as the son of Nicolaas Hogenberg. By the end of the 1560s Frans Hogenberg was employed upon Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570; he is named as engraver on numerous maps. In 1568 he was bannend from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva and travelled to London, where he stayed a few years before emigrating to Cologne. There he immediately embarked on his two most important works, the Civitates published from 1572 and the Geschichtsblätter, which appeared in several series from 1569 until about 1587.
Thanks to such large scale projects as the Geschichtsblätter and the Civitates, Hogenberg’s social circumstances improved with each passing year. He died as a wealthy man in Cologne in 1590.
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Geschichtsblätter: 1570, Duke Alva proclaims the General Pardon
by Frans HogenbergPrice: €125,00 / $137,50 / £107,50 -
Geschichtsblätter: 1576, Battle at Vissenaken
by Frans HogenbergPrice: €125,00 / $137,50 / £107,50 -
Geschichtsblätter: 1578, Battle at Gembloux
by Frans HogenbergPrice: €125,00 / $137,50 / £107,50 -
Geschichtsblätter: 1580 Malcontents taking Kortrijk
by Frans HogenbergPrice: €125,00 / $137,50 / £107,50 -
Geschichtsblätter: 1595 Spanish retaking Huy
by Frans HogenbergPrice: €125,00 / $137,50 / £107,50
