Hans Hoffmann, 1585 - A Hare in the Forest - fine art print

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Nibbling on a leaf pulled from a stalk of Lady's Mantle, an alert hare sits at the edge of a pine forest. Unlike the darkness one would expect to find in a forest, Hans Hoffmann painted a theatrically illuminated scene. Each plant and insect--snail, cricket, beetle--is seen in vivid detail. The finely wrought leaves of the thistle, the sprawling fronds of a plantain, and the bright blue flowers of the Hare Bell attest to Hoffmann's meticulous treatment of the subject. In fact, none of these plants could have coexisted in the natural world. Hoffmann imaginatively combined numerous individual nature studies in a single painting.

Hoffmann's golden-brown hare is based on Albrecht Dürer's famous and influential watercolor which, much like his Stag Beetle, shows a hare against a plain ground. Hoffmann had seen Dürer's hare while in Nuremburg. Later, when he went to work in the court of Emperor Rudolf II, he helped the Emperor acquire the watercolor for his Kunstkammer. Hoffmann's hare differs from Dürer's, however, appearing amid a striking arrangement of elegant plants and insects. At the time it was painted, this arrangement of nearly life-size subjects was entirely unique, not only within Hoffmann's body of work, but also within the tradition of German nature study.

painting by Hans Hoffmann (Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum)

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A Hare in the Forest is a piece of art created by Hans Hoffmann in 1585. The 430 year-old original of the masterpiece measures the size: 62,2 × 78,4 cm (24 1/2 × 30 7/8 in) and was painted with the technique oil on panel. Moveover, this work of art is included in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital art collection. With courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum (public domain license).Furthermore, the work of art has the creditline: . Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an image ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. Hans Hoffmann was a male painter, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Mannerism. The European painter lived for 51 years and was born in 1540 and died in 1591 in Prague, Praha, Hlavni Mesto, Czech Republic.

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