(b Nuremberg, 1503; d Vienna, 1553). Glass painter, etcher, cartographer and mathematician, son of (1) Veit Hirschvogel the elder. He trained as a stained-glass painter in his father’s workshop and remained there until his father’s death in 1525. In that year Nuremberg accepted the Reformation, spelling the end of monumental stained-glass commissions. This must have profoundly reduced the production of the workshop, now run by his elder brother Veit, and may have forced Augustin to become more versatile. By 1530 he had established his own workshop but in 1531 formed a partnership with the Nuremberg potters Hanns Nickel ( fl c. 1530) and Oswald Reinhart ( fl c. 1530), presumably to share their kiln. This partnership, coupled with Johann Neudörfer’s confusing comments about Hirschvogel in his Nachrichten (1547), formerly led to speculation about his having made a ceramic stove and pots in a classicizing Italianate style. It is more likely that the vessels made by Augustin and described in documents as in a Venetian style were glass, not earthenware.

Part of the Hirschvogel family

• Hirschvogel, Augustin
  • Hirschvogel
  • Hirschvogel: (1) Veit Hirschvogel
  • Wolmut, Bonifaz
  • attributions
    • Leu, Hans, II
  • groups and movements
    • Danube school, §3: Media
  • patrons and collectors
    • Esterházy, §I: (4) Miklós Esterházy II
  • teachers
    • Huber, Wolfgang, §2: Later work, after 1521
  • works
    • Austria, §III, 2: Renaissance painting and graphic arts, c 1530–c 1600
    • Etching, §II, 1(i): Origins: Germany and the Netherlands
    • Landscape painting, §II, 4(i): 16th century: Danube school
    • Prints, §II, 1(viii): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Landscape
    • Roundel, stained-glass, §2: Design
    • Vienna, §II, 2: Urban development, c 1500–c 1800