Image series 43 / 2022: Rhinos
Representations from the 16th century onwards
23 October 2022
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By: Bettina Pfleging
In Albrecht Dürer’s day, hardly anyone in Europe had seen a rhinoceros. Nevertheless, there are many graphic representations of the large, strange, exotic animal. Dürer, too, only knew of a Rhinoceros unicornis from second-hand descriptions, but with his woodcut he created the almost exclusive model for depictions of the exotic animal that was valid for over 200 years.
In the exhibition, around 40 selected prints from the 16th to 18th centuries illustrate the change from the fantastic creature to the realistically depicted mammal. Illustrated books from the library and medals from the coin cabinet expand the view to include aspects of scientific and cultural history.
„The wondrous rhinoceros. Three hundred years of prints“
July, 21st 2022 to July, 26st 2023, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
Albrecht Dürer. Næsehornet | Dessein du Rhinocéros | The rhinoceros, Ausschnitt, 1515, Træsnit, muligvis opklæbet på kraftigere papir, bladmaal: 21 cm x 29,9 cm, Copenhagen; Statens Museum for Kunst
Enea Vico. Neushoorn – Neushoorn | Rhinocerus, Ausschnitt, 1542, paperengraving, 26,5 × 36,4 cm. Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
Antonio Tempesta. Neushoorn – Neushoorn | Rinocerons/ Rinoceronte | Dieren en fabelwezens | Nova raccolta de li animali piu curiosi del mondo, Ausschnitt, 1650, paperetching, 9,5 × 13,7 cm, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
Athanasius Kircher. Giorgio de Sepi, Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum, Amsterdam 1678, S. 30, Detail, Illustration (Nashorn), Ausschnitt, 1678, Berlin; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Wahre Abbildung von einem lebendigen Rhinoceros oder Nashorn, welches nach vieler Meinung der Behemoth sein soll, wovon Hiob am 40. Cap[itel] gedacht wird, Ausschnitt, um 1749, Erlangen-Nürnberg; Einblattdrucke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Alessandro Longhi. The Rhinoceros, Clara, in the foreground, her keeper holding her horn and a whip behind her at center with various other spectators in Carnival masks, Ausschnitt, after ca. 1751, Etching, 41.4 × 51.5 cm, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johann Elias Ridinger. Nashorn, Ausschnitt, 1768, 66 × 49 cm, Wien; Sammlungen Online Albertina, Albertina Wien
August Allebé. Neushoorn in het water, Ausschnitt, 1848 – 1927, paperpencilchalkpaper, 9,4 × 13,6 cm, Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam
