Franz Hogenberg ( Frans ) (born in 1535 with Malignant, died in 1590 with Cologne) is a copper plate engraver and aquafortist of Belgian origin.
Life
Franz Hogenberg is the son of Nicolas Hogenberg, of Malignant. It makes its training at Terbruggen then works in France, Germany and in Denmark.Work
In 1572, it publishes an atlas of the cities of the world, Civitates Orbis Terrarum , in collaboration with Georg Braun. Innumerable engravings of the Description of the princely marriage of Jülich-Kleve-Berg ( Beschreibung derer Fürstlicher Güligscher EC. Hochzeit ), published by Dietrich Graminaüs in 1587 with Cologne to celebrate the weddings of Johann Wilhelm de Clèves with Jacqueline de Bade, are hand of Frans Hogenberg.Civitates Orbis Terrarum
In 1544, Sebastian Münster had made publish a Cosmographia Universalis in Basle. The work, illustrated engravings on wood of Holbein, knew an immediate success and many republications throughout the 16th century. Progress of engraving on copper facilitated the impression of the charts. In 1570, celebrates it Dutch cartographer, Abraham Ortelius, published in its turn an atlas of the terrestrial sphere, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , by calling upon Hogenberg which engraved a certain number of boards. The passion of the public for the illustrated books of geography contributed to the design and publication of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum , work whose appearance and size resembled that of Ortelius much and who was regarded as the natural sequence of this one. It is George Braun (1541-1622), theologist, canon and senior of the Collégiale Santa Maria AD Gradus of Cologne, which was the editor of this collection and which, of 1572 to 1618, gathered or wrote the texts which accompany engravings by Simon Novellanus (about 1538 - about 1590) and especially by Franz Hogenberg.
Six volumes of the complete edition comprise more than 350 rather faithful sights of cities, that is to say panoramas, plans or sights as the crow flies, composing a unit of approximately 1600 pages to the format 280X410 Misters Certains panoramas are hand of Georg Hoefnagel, and part of the charts of the Belgian cities and Dutchwomen are of the Dutch cartographer Jacob Van Deventer. Y appear all the big cities of Europe, of Africa, of Asia, and even of America.
These engravings of Hogenberg are of a priceless value for the knowledge of the medieval cities before the massive destruction due to the Guerre Thirty Year old or to renovation works of the time baroque. To the detailed representations of the cities and landscapes many elements of decoration such as the vehicles are added, the ships, the characters in costumes of time and innumerable scenes of kind. The images are decorated with the armorial bearings with the cities.
The engraved plates passed later in the possession of the Dutch map production Jan Jansson. It there made several modifications, and published a new edition of the urban panoramas in 1657, in Cologne. The editions of the work are very appraisals of the experts because of their artistic excellence.
It also engraved a drawing of Pierre Bruegel the Old one, the Village fair of Hoboken .
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