Augustin Hirschvogel

Augustin Hirschvogel was a German artist, mathematician and cartographer who lived from 1503 to February 1553 and was known primarily for his etchings. His thirty-five small landscape etchings, made between 1545 and 1549, assured him a place in the Danube School, a circle of artists in sixteenth century Bavaria and Austria. He began work in his birthplace, Nuremberg, where his father, the city official stained glass painter, trained him in glass painting, and by 1530 he had his own workshop. He left in 1536 for Laibach, present day Ljubljana, and his earliest known cartographic work is a set of maps of Turkish borders from 1539 and of Austria from 1542. He moved to Vienna in 1544.