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Daniel Hopfer


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Three Worthy Pagan. Hector Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Print by Daniel Hopfer

Three Worthy Pagan. Hector Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar

The Triumphant Christ Print by Daniel Hopfer

Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death

Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death Print by Daniel Hopfer

The Triumphant Christ

Soldier Embracing a Woman Print by Daniel Hopfer

Soldier Embracing a Woman

Saint George on Horseback Slaying the Dragon Print by Daniel Hopfer

Saint George on Horseback Slaying the Dragon

Bolikana and Markolfus Print by Daniel Hopfer

Bolikana and Markolfus

Girolamo da Siena Print by Daniel Hopfer

Girolamo da Siena

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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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