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• • Published: Jacob Cornelisz

    2019/06/27 Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen In the early decades of the sixteenth century Jacob Cornelisz (c. 1460/65-1533) headed a productive workshop in Kalverstraat in Amsterdam. read more »

  • Published: Johann Ulrich Kraus

    2019/04/11 Johann Ulrich Kraus was born to a widely dispersed family of artists and artisans. He was the son of the carpenter Ulrich Krauss and received initial training in carpentry from him. read more »

  • New Project: Jacob Christoff Le Blon and the Brothers L’Admiral

    2019/02/19 Jacob Christoff Le Blon (1667–1741) moved to Amsterdam in 1703 when publishers were producing a la poupée inked colour prints. read more »

  • Published: The De Jode dynasty I-IV

    2018/10/10 The Antwerp De Jode family consists of four generations of publishers, designers and engravers, working between c.1550 and 1670, throughout the ‘golden age’ of Flemish printmaking read more »

• • Publ. Johann Stridbeck the Elder and the Younger

    2018/09/19 The imperial city of Augsburg flourished during the Renaissance when such notable printmakers as Hans Burgkmair and Daniel Hopfer were active. In the seventeenth-century Augsburg remained read more »

  • Published: Prints at the Court of Fontainebleau

    2017/12/17 The chateau of Fontainebleau, transformed into a magnificent palace during the reign of François Ier, was the birthplace of many of the greatest artistic innovations of the French Renaissance. read more »

  • Published: Abraham de Bruijn

    2017/10/27 Finally The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish catalogue on Abraham de Bruijn is there, an artist who until now had been shabbily treated by art history. F.W.H. Hollstein,
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  • Published: Johannes Teyler and Dutch colour prints

    2017/10/22 An exhibition of colour printed engravings and etchings traditionally attributed to Johannes Teyler (Nijmegen 1648–c.1709) was shown in Nijmegen and Cleves in 1961. read more »

• • Launched: The Hollstein Journal

    2016/12/19 With great pleasure we announce our first e-newsletter, The Hollstein Journal. Via this medium, which we aim to publish at least twice a year, we will keep you informed read more »

  • Published: Niklaus and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch

    2016/12/14 Niklaus Manuel (or Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, 1484? - 1530) was mainly active in Berne and is regarded as one of the foremost Swiss Renaissance artists.
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  • Published: LXXXV Georg Strauch – Nicolaus Strauss

    2016/10/31 The substantial oeuvre of Georg Strauch is mostly interesting in terms of portraiture in Nuremberg and book illustrations for works by Johann Michael Dilherr among others. read more »

  • Published: LXXXIV J.M. Störitz - Georg Strauch

    2016/10/31 The rarity of the ten prints by the famous early German sculptor Veit Stoss can be gauged by looking at The Print Council of America sponsored A Census of
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• • Published: Hollstein’s German LXXXIII

    2016/09/15 Lorenz Stör is best known for the volume Geometria et Perspectiva, Augsburg 1567, comprising surreal images of polyhedra in landscapes of ruins “useful to cabinetmakers working ... read more »

  • Published: The Greuter family

    2016/04/10 Matthäus Greuter (1566-1638) was born in Strasbourg, where he first started his artistic career in 1586 with some small engravings in the tradition of the German Little Masters. read more »

  • Published: Hans and Martin Brosamer

    2015/10/19 Hans and Martin Brosamer As little we know about the life and education of Hans Brosamer (ca. 1500 - 1552/54) as extensive is the oeuvre he left.
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  • Published: Hans Bol

    2015/07/14 Since the publication of Hollstein Dutch & Flemish volume III in 1951 (compiled by F.W.H. Hollstein himself) no systematic list of the etchings by, and the engravings after Hans Bol has been published. read more »

• • New Project: Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen

    2015/01/20 Jacob Cornelisz. van OostsanenJacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (c. 1465-1533) was the first artist in Amsterdam known by name and one of the first printmakers in the Netherlands. read more »

  • Published: Adriaen, Jan and Theodoor Matham

    2015/01/16 Adriaen and Theodor Matham followed in the footsteps of their father, the engraver Jacob Matham, who was the adoptive son of Hendrick Goltzus, and took up
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  • NHD Rembrandt reviewed in Simiolus

    2014/11/30 Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers (compilers) and Ger Luijten (editor), The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1400–1700
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  • IFPDA award for NHD Rembrandt

    2014/10/29 The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish - Rembrandt has won the annual IFPDA Book award at the Print fair in New York. According to the jury report this publication
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• • Hollstein reviews in Burlington Magazine

    2014/10/15 The New Holstein Dutch & Flemish - Rembrandt as well as The New Holstein Dutch & Flemish - Goltzius have been reviewed in the October issue of
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  • Published: Nicolaes de Bruyn

    2014/09/01 Nicolaes de Bruyn (1571-1656) is known primarily among print specialists for his large engraved landscapes after designs by artists such as Gillis van Coninxloo
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  • Rembrandt presentation

    2014/01/31 The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish - Rembrandt presentation (16th January) in the Rijksmuseum has turned out to be a succes. Around 120 visitors from various
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  • Published: Abel and Tobias Stimmer

    2014/01/31 Andreas Andresen (1828-1871) provided the first catalogue raisonné of prints by Tobias Stimmer in the third volume of his publication Der Deutsche Peintre-Graveur read more »

• • New project: Johann Ulrich Kraus

    2014/01/31 Johann Ulrich Kraus was born to a widely dispersed family of artists and artisans. He was the son of the carpenter Ulrich Krauss and received initial training in carpentry from him. read more »

  • INVITATION

    2014/01/02 The Rijksmuseum and Sound & Vision Publishers have the pleasure of inviting you to a presentation to celebrate the recent publication read more »

  • New project: Peter Paul Rubens

    2013/10/11 A catalogue of the prints and a complete access to the images of the formidable oeuvre of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) read more »

  • NHD Rembrandt - publication completed

    2013/09/27 The new catalogue raisonné of Rembrandt's etchings published in the New Hollstein Dutch series, seven volumes read more »

• • New Project: The De Jode Dynasty

    2013/03/14 A comprehensive publication of the prints published and engraved by the Antwerp De Jode family has long since been a desideratum in the research on the history read more »

  • Rembrandt unraveled

    2012/11/01 To mark the forthcoming publication of the New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish volumes on Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum is exhibiting 36 etchings by him.
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  • Dutch Cancer Society - KWF

    2012/10/01 We are proud to announce that we have become business friend of the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) for 2013 by supporting their scientific research in the read more »

  • Hendrick Goltzius

    2012/05/01 The virtuoso artist Hendrick Goltzius (Mulbracht 1558-1617 Haarlem) was the most influential engraver of the late sixteenth century.
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• • Crispijn van den Broeck - New Hollstein Dutch

    2011/11/01 After our publication on Frans Floris we now present an oeuvre catalogue on Crispijn van den Broeck. The works of the two artists who were near contemporaries read more »

  • Frans Floris - New Hollstein Dutch

    2011/04/01 Frans Floris (1519/20-1570) was the foremost Antwerp artist of the mid-sixteenth century. Known as the Flemish Raphael, he was admired for his read more »

  • Wenceslaus Hollar - New Hollstein German

    2010/08/01 Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) - also known as Wenzel and Václav - was a draughtsman and a prolific and accomplished etcher.
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  • Volume LXXII - Index to volumes I-LXXI

    2010/06/01 The first volume of the reference work on Dutch and Flemish printmaking that has become known as ‘Hollstein’ was published in 1949.
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• • Hans Springinklee - Hollstein German / New Hollstein German

    2010/02/01 A catalogue raisonné of Hans Springinklee’s prints had long been missing - " due to the fact that, with this oeuvre, a substantial number of still
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  • Frans and Remigius Hogenberg - New Hollstein Dutch

    2009/02/01 The brothers Remigius and Frans Hogenberg have been poorly served by art history. Their print production - varied and of great quality - has barely been studied, and deserves a detailed catalogue.
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  • Johannes Stradanus - New Hollstein Dutch

    2008/10/01 The versatile artist Johannes Stradanus, or Jan van der Straet, was born in Bruges in 1523, but found fame as one of the most successful northern masters working in
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  • Jorg Breu The Elder and the Younger - New Hollstein German

    2008/09/01 One of the leading figures of Augsburg Renaissance art, Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475/80-1537) was also one of the most versatile and productive designers of
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• • Simon Frisius - New Hollstein Dutch

    2008/07/01 Simon Frisius (c. 1580 Harlingen-1628 The Hague), perhaps little recognised now, was a prolific etcher and engraver who received great praise from contemporaries for
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  • Jacob Matham - by Léna Widerkehr

    2008/01/01 The critical fortunes of the Haarlem engraver, publisher and draughtsman Jacob Matham (1571-1631) are mainly bound up with the name of Hendrick Goltzius, whose
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  • Leonhard Beck - New Hollstein German

    2007/12/01 Born in Augsburg as the son of illuminator Georg Beck, Leonhard Beck (c. 1480-1542) began his artistic career as an apprentice in the workshop of the Augsburg
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  • Pieter Bruegel the elder - New Hollstein Dutch

    2006/11/01 Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-30-1569) created only one print himself, The Rabbit Hunt, but by the time he made that single etching in 1560 he had produced numerous
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• • Rembrandt as an etcher, the practice of production and distribution (3 parts)

    2006/02/01 Rembrandt van Rijn was not just a famous painter, he was also of paramount importance as an etcher. He was far more adventurous than his contemporaries in
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  • Peeter va der Borcht (Book Illustrations) - New Hollstein Dutch

    2005/06/01 In spite of their influence some printmakers have been poorly treated by art history and Peeter van der Borcht is one of them. Many of his prints were copied by
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  • The Collaert Dynasty - New Hollstein Dutch

    2005/03/01 The Collaert family was one of the most important engravers and print publishers dynasties actieve in Antwerp in the second part of the Sixteenth and the first part of
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  • Virgil Solis Holstein German / New Holstein German

    2005/01/01 The volumes dedicated to the prints of Virgil Solis, introduces the astonishing variety of one of the most prolific graphic artists of sixteenth-century Nuremberg to
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• • Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II has won award

    2004/11/01 Our publication in Studies in Prints and Printmaking “Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II, The seventeenth century” by Peter Fuhring has won the annual
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  • The Wierix Family (Book Illustrations) - Hollstein Dutch / New Hollstein Dutch

    2004/01/01 The three Wierix brothers were among the most prolific of the numerous engravers active in Antwerp in the second half of the sixteenth and in the early seventeenth centuries. read more »