The National Museum of Western Art

update 28 August 2010

Currently not on display

Heinrich Aldegrever [Paderborn, 1502 - Soest, Westphalia, 1551-61]

<The Power of Death >: The Fall (Sündenfall)

Date1541
Materials/Techniquesengraving
Size (cm)7.7 x 5.0
InscriptionsMonogram and dated u. r.: 1541 AG; Inscribed b. margin: QVIA AVDISTI VOCEM VXORIS TVÆ, & COMEDISTI DE LIGNO EX QVO PRE CEPERAM TIBI NE COMEDERES &c. GENESIS III.; numbered l.l.corner; 2
Standard ref.Bartsch 136
CategoryPrints
Collection NumberG.2000-0043

Exhibition History

2002
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] New Acquisitions 1999-2001, Prints Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 5 March 2002 - 26 May 2002
2007
Gods and Nature: The Essence of European Art from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Himeji City Museum of Art, 4 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, 23-02

Bibliography

1933
Zschelletzschky, Herbert. Das graphische Werk Heinrich Aldegrevers: ein Beitrag zu seinem Stil im Rahmen der deutschen Stilentwicklung. Strassburg, J. H. ED. Heitz, 1933, pp. 86-88.
1989
Schuster, Eva. Mensch und Tod: Graphiksammlung der Universität Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf, Triltsch, 1989, pp. 4-6.
1995
German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550 (exh. cat.). Bartrum, Giulia, ed. London, British Museum, 1995, pp. 179-180.
1998
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700: Heinrich Aldegrever. Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1998, pp. 120-123, nos. 135-142

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