Heinrich (1490) Vogtherr Sold at Auction Prices

Heinrich Vogtherr (1490-1556), Sebald Beham (1500-1550), and Jost Amman (1539-1591)

Heinrich Vogtherr (1490-1556), Sebald Beham (1500-1550), and Jost Amman (1539-1591) Sammelband of artist's pattern books, Germany, 16th century 4 works in 1 volume, 4to (16.5 x 12.5cm), early-18th-century British binding of calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, top compartment with heraldic crest of Clan Swinton (boar statant chained to a tree), second and third with contrasting red and green labels (titled ‘Beham’s Draughts' and dated 1538), engraved 18th-century bookplate to front pastedown, 20th-century bookplate of Robert and Helen Kime to front free endpaper (largely earlier ownership inscription ending ‘Laing’). Contents comprise: 1. Vogtherr, Heinrich. Ein Frembds und wunderbars kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildshnitzern, Goldschmiden, Steinmetzen, Schreinern, Platnern, Waffen un Messerschmiden hochnutzlich zu[m] gebrauchen, Der gleich vor nie keins gesehen, oder inn den Truck kommen ist. Strassburg: Heinrich Vogtherr, 1538. A-G4, 27 ff., lacking D1, illustrated with twin woodcut medallion portraits of Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder and Younger on title page, 108 woodcut bust studies of men and women wearing various kinds of headgear, and some 600 further woodcut studies of hands, feet, helmets, body armour, weaponry, shields, moulded column capitals and bases, and candelabra. Moderate soiling, closely trimmed along fore edge frequently cropping text and images, small chip to head of A2-3, A3 with closed tear, A4 with shallow chips to lower margin, C1 and C3 possibly transposed, G4 (final leaf) torn with loss. [VD 16 V 2179; not in Adams].Second edition (first published in 1537) of what is commonly described as the first printed model-book for artists, a highly influential work which was reprinted several times into the 17th century, the rarity of surviving copies attesting to their heavy usage, with four copies traced in auction records in the last 100 years, including one of the 1538 edition, the remaining copies from later editions. In his preface, Vogtherr, himself a committed evangelical, presents the work as an attempt to preserve traditional artistic knowledge and craft practices among his German compatriots against the threat posed presumably by the iconoclastic tendencies of the Reformation. ‘Vogtherr probably trained with Hans Burgkmair in Augsburg. After working from c.1522 in Wimpfen, he moved to Strasbourg towards the end of 1525, where he worked as a painter and where he became a citizen in 1526. From 1536 he ran a printing business in Strasbourg, publishing medical works which he probably wrote himself, and a ’Kunstbüchlein' in 1537, a pattern book with designs for painters and decorative artists, to which his son Heinrich Vogtherr, who became a master in 1541, also contributed' (British Museum, online).[Bound after:]2. Beham, Sebald. Dises buchlein zeyget an und lernet ein maß oder proporcion der Ross nutzlich iungen gesellen malern und goltschmide[n]. Nuremberg: [Friedrich Peypus], 1528. A-E4 (-E4, blank or cancelled), 19 ff., lacking E2 (f. 18) and E4, illustrated with 14 woodcut and typographic diagrams depicting in stages the drawing of a horse, decorative woodcut initials. Closely trimmed along fore-edge frequently cropping text and images, damp-staining and general soiling, E3 torn with loss and misbound between D4 and E1.[Bartrum, German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550, 94; VD16 B 14873; not in Adams].First edition, a very rare piracy of a series of sketches on proportion by Albrecht Dürer, preceding their authorised publication in Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion later the same year. An accusation of plagiarism was brought by Dürer's widow Agnes and Nuremberg's city council ‘ordered Beham … not to publish any further copies of the treatise and not to sell those copies already printed’ (Smith, Nuremberg: A Renaissance City 1500-1683, 1983, 95). Beham appears to have fled the city as a result, moving first to Ingolstadt before settling in Frankfurt. Two copies traced in auction records (2018, in Germany, with 17 leaves only, and a complete copy at Sotheby's in 1933).[And before:]3. Beham, Sebald. [Kunst und Lehrbüchlin Malen und Reissen zu lernen, nach rechter Proportion, Maß und außtheilung dess Circkels. Angehenden Malern und Kunst-baren Werckleuten dienlich]. [?Frankfurt: Christian Egelnoffs Erben, 1582 or 1584]. 9 leaves only (of 27), i.e. A4 B-C4, woodcuts in text (mainly head studies and related diagrams), A1 torn with loss, B4 chipped at foot, cropping in fore margins.[Possibly VD16 B1480/1, running heads reading ‘Kunst und Lehr Büchlin', matching the orthography of the title in this edition, other editions reading ‘Kunst und Lere …’].First published in 1546.[And:]4. [Amman, Jost]. [Kunstbüchlin. Darinnen neben Furbildung vieler Geistlicher unnd Weltlicher Hohes und Niderstands Personen so dann auch der Turckischen Kayser]. [Frankfurt: durch Romanum Beatum, in Verlegung Johann Feyerabend, 1599]. 102 leaves only (of 152: extant leaves comprise 2 of 4 introductory text-leaves including title-page, and 100 leaves each with woodcut either side, i.e. 200 woodcuts in total), damp-staining and soiling, several chips and tears, one leaf (2D1?) largely torn away, 2L2-3 each with loss of upper third, contemporary and later manuscript captions in German and English;Often described as the most complete edition of Jost Amman's important pattern book for artists, first published in 1578 as Kunst und Lehrbüchlein, but expanded to such an extent as to be in effect a new work, complete copies having over 290 woodcuts, as opposed to 102 in the 1578 edition [Adams A969].

16th C Wood Cut Print H. Vogtherr Siamese Twins

16th C Wood Cut Print Heinrich Vogtherr (1490-1556) Siamese Twins. Hand Coloured. Print Measures 4 Inches H X 7.5 W, Frame Measures 9 Inches H X 11.75 W.

Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, The Adoration of the Magi

RefMas121121 Monogrammed and dated lower right on the two stone plates: HS 1518 Certificate Prof. Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich, Cologne 28.9.2021. This painting, reminiscent of works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, reveals a number of similarities in the design of the vestments, the decoration and the landscape to works attributed to the South German painter and graphic artist Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, for example the "Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus" in Aschaffenburg (Bayrische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, inv. no. 6275) or "Christ and the Adulteress" in Cologne (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, inv. no. 530). The present work is signed at the bottom centre on the right side of the stone with the initials "HS", as is the Aschaffenburg Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus. The initials can be resolved as "Henricus Satrapitanus", as Heinrich Vogtherr used to call himself (Emmendörfer 1998, op. cit.). From about 1514-1517, Vogtherr can be traced back in Leipzig several times, until he returned to his southern German home in Augsburg in 1518. He undoubtedly used many of Cranach's motifs in his works, and he also acquired techniques used in Cranach's workshop. He may even have worked at times in the Wittenberg workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (Gunnar Heydenreich, op. cit., p. 286). In preparation for the current certificate, the painting was examined in September 2021, using art technical analysis in order to gain information about the materials and techniques used. The infrared reflectography made in the process (see illustration) reveals a sketchy preliminary drawing for the composition, certainly not intended for the execution of the painting by another assistant, but by Heinrich Vogtherr himself.

Vogtherr, Heinrich d.Ä.

(1490 Dillingen a.d. Donau - Wien 1556) od. Hans Burgkmair d.J. (1500 Augsburg ca. 1562). 3 Bll. aus dem Augsburger Geschlechterbuch. Stahlradierungen Mitte 16. Jh. auf feinem Bütten, in Zust. m. Text, aber anderer Schrift als in der Ausgabe von u. bei Zimmermann 1618. Alle m. d. Namen d. Familien. in Großbuchstaben sowie Num., tls. in röm. u. arab. Ziffern. Alle punktuell auf Trägerkart. gekl. Dieser unt. Passep. mont. Die Druckpl. tls. m. deutl. Kratzsp. ╔Vorh.: Von Hoy╗. Num. XIX. Blgr. ca. 20,2 x 13,4 cm. - ╔Briol.╗ XXXXXII u. 40. Blgr. ca. 20,4 x 13,5 cm. - ╔Langenmantll (sic!) vom R╗. V. 60. Blgr. ca. 21,0 x 14,4 cm. - Vgl. ThB Bd. XXXIV, S. 499-504, insb. S. 502-503. - Tls. etw. fl. u. gebr. D

BURGKMAIR – VOGTHERR. COATS OF ARMS OF AUGSBURG’S FAMILY.

Hans BURGKMAIR – Heinrich VOGTHERR 1531; 1490-1556 Coats of arms of Augsburg’s family.1545 Xilografia di 212x138 mm. Datata e firmata. Incollata su un cartoncino ai margini. Al verso una traccia di timbro scudato. Controfondato. Buono stato di conservazione. Graziosa rappresentazione dello stemma della famiglia degli Asburgo. Le due aquile sono una di fronte all’altra e con le zampe che si posano su una pigna. In basso, su due cartigli, compaiono i nomi dei due autori, He. Voghterr e H Burgkmair.Bartsch, Le Peintre graveu (III.285.3). Hollstein, German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700.Passavant 1860-64.

VOGTHERR, Heinrich (1490-1556). Ein Frembds und wunderbars kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildschnitzern, Goldschmiden, Steinmetzen, Schreinern, Patnern, Waffen unn Messerschmiden hochnutzlich zu gebrauchen. Strassburg: Heinrich Vogtherr, 1538. 4υo (186 x 148 mm). Woodcut portrait medallions of Vogtherr the Elder and Younger on title, woodcut Vogtherr armorial, and 28 leaves containing approx. 700 woodcut designs. Early 20th-century black morocco by Cuzin, edges gilt. Provenance: E. Foulc (bookplate); Philip Hofer (bookplate); acquired from Ars Libri, 1983. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED MODEL BOOK FOR ARTISTS. Vogtherr published his Kunstbüchlein in order, as he describes in the preface, to serve artists in Germany and to present for their assistance difficult pieces to draw. The woodcuts depict male and female headgear, hands and feet in different attitudes, armour, weapons, shields, and column bases and capitals "all distinguished by beauty and originality, especially in regard to the female heads which show a great variety in the styles and dressing" (Fairfax Murray). Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder may have trained in the workshop of Hans Burgkmair I; he was assisted in the Kunstbüchlein by his son and namesake. "Very little seems to be known of the Vogtherrs, and most of the information concerning them appears to be derived from the present book. In 1545 the name is associated with that of H. Burgkmair, a plate of the arms of Augsburg having the signatures of both artists, see Passavant III p. 285 (2). Four separate cuts are accompanied by Vogtherr's name, one with his description 'Maler zu Wimpffen' and one dated 1541" (Fairfax Murray German 428).

VOGTHERR, Heinrich (1490-1556). Ein Frembds und wunderbars Kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildtschnitzern, Goldtschmiden, Steynmetzen, Schreynern, Patnenern, Wafen und Messerschmiden hochnutzlich zu gebrauchen . Strassburg: Jacob Fröhlich, 1545.

VOGTHERR, Heinrich (1490-1556). Ein Frembds und wunderbars Kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildtschnitzern, Goldtschmiden, Steynmetzen, Schreynern, Patnenern, Wafen und Messerschmiden hochnutzlich zu gebrauchen. Strassburg: Jacob Fröhlich, 1545. 4° (197 x 147mm). Woodcut portrait medallions of Vogtherr the Elder and Younger on title, woodcut Vogtherr armorial, and 28 leaves containing approx. 700 woodcut designs. (Repaired marginal tear in 2 leaves, a little light soiling and browning.) Early 20th-century brown morocco, gilt edges (rear corner cracked); modern brown leather folding box. UNRECORDED FOURTH EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED MODEL BOOK FOR ARTISTS. Vogtherr first published his Kunstbüchlein in 1537 in order, as he describes in the preface, to serve artists in Germany and to present for their assistance difficult pieces to draw. The woodcuts depict male and female headgear, hands and feet in different attitudes, armour, weapons, shields, and column bases and capitals. Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder may have trained in the workshop of Hans Burgkmair I; he was assisted in the Kunstbüchlein by his son and namesake.