David and Goliath

Prints and Drawings

1551

Hanns Lautensack
German, 1524-1560/66

Hanns Lautensack is known as a prolific etcher of landscapes, particularly those with views of southern Germany marked by knobby pollard willows. Unusually, he focused here on a biblical story. The Philistine giant Goliath, a towering hulk of a man, is almost as tall as the central tree, while David, the youthful underdog who would fell the mighty Goliath like an oak and become king of the Israelites, strides in from the right with an exuberant sunset behind him. This trademark light effect recurs in other Danube School works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Wolfgang Huber.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hanns Lautensack
Title: David and Goliath
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1551
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: 17.5 × 23 cm (6 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Stanley Field Fund
Reference Number: 1981.154
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