Hans Burgkmair Battle of Oudenaarde print from the 16th century

Hans Burgkmair Battle of Oudenaarde Woodcut. This rare specimen, in excellent condition and very fresh, belongs to a series of woodcuts printed from original 16th-century blocks, engraved by the German Hans Burgkmair the Elder, depicting battles of Emperor Maximilian (1512-1516), titled Marx Treitzsaurwein der Weisskunig (History of Emperor Maximilian I and his ancestors in 236 woodcuts), first published in 1775.

Color printing, also known as siligraphy, is a relief engraving technique in which parts of the upper surface of a wooden panel that do not form part of the design are removed; the matrices are coated with ink and used to produce multiple copies of the same subject through printing with a press. Since woodcut is a type of relief etching, it is not difficult to insert the woodcut block into typographic forms, allowing for simultaneous printing of text and images.

Hans Burgkmair, known as the Elder (Augsburg, 1473 – Augsburg, 1531), was a German painter considered the first German artist of the Italian Renaissance, and also the first to apply chiaroscuro techniques in his woodcuts.

The print is housed in a double cardboard measuring 50 x 35 cm and contains items from an antiquarian collection in Bologna.

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