Daniel Hopfer
Illustrations
Three Worthy Pagan. Hector Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death
The Triumphant Christ
Soldier Embracing a Woman
Saint George on Horseback Slaying the Dragon
Bolikana and Markolfus
Girolamo da Siena
Portrait of Kunz von der Rosen
Daniel Hopfer (circa 1470 in Kaufbeuren – 1536 in Augsburg) was a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking, at the end of the fifteenth century. He also worked in woodcut.
The son of Bartholomäus Hopfer, a painter, and his wife Anna Sendlerin, Daniel moved to Augsburg early in his life, and acquired citizenship there in 1493. Daniel Hopfer's early etchings were done in line-work, but he and his sons soon developed more sophisticated techniques, referred to by armour historians as the Hopfer style. Applied to prints, this produced silhouetted designs on a black ground, doubtless by multiple bitings of the plates. The technically demanding procedure seems to have been both delicate and labour-intensive, and no other artists are known to have used this exact method. Their plates were all iron, rather than the copper that the Italians later introduced.
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