Vogtherr, Heinrich
Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder (1490 - 1556) was a German formschneider artist, printer, and author. He was born in the Bavarian town of Dollingen, the son of a doctor and brother of a priest and of a Bishop. He is thought to have received artistic training in Augsburg and likely studied wood engraving under Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473–1531). At some point during his travels, he embraced the Lutheran reforms, which informed his own work and that which he would undertake for other authors; much of his early output would be Reformation broadsheets and pamphlets. Although he took part in the religious wars of the 1520s, he would eventually find his way with his family to safety in Strasbourg, where he would find most of his work producing illustrations for the active publishing community there. He would, in 1536, found his own print shop, but work would require him to move frequently: in 1538 to Basel, Speyer, and Augsburg. He would settle for some years in Zurich, working in the print shop of Christoph Froschauer. It was during his tenure there that he would produce Johann Honter's world map and many of the woodcut illustrations for Johannes Stumph's history of Switzerland. In 1550, he would move to Vienna at the command of Emperor Ferdinand I; he died in that city in 1556. Heinrich's son, Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (1513 - 1568), would become a painter.
Most beautifully executed woodcut map of Europe.
Europa / die erste Tafel diser Chronicken / so im ersten Buech begrissen.
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This is a bold, attractive 1606 edition of Johann Stumpf's 1548 south-oriented map of Europe. It is the only map derived from Sebastian Münster's Europe and is thus the last derivative of Martin Waldseemüller's unobtainable 1511 map of Europe. While Münster's map went to many editions and is readily acquirable, Stumpf's work was produced in smaller numbers and is a rarer work: larger, more beautifully executed, and more desirable. (more details)