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• Was a prolific Bohemian graphic artist of the 17th century.
• He spent much of his life in England.
• He is known to German speakers as Wenzel Hollar; and to Czech speakers as Václav Hollar.
• He is particularly noted for his engravings and etchings.
• He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.
• A High School of Arts and Higher Art School in Prague is named after him, the Výtvarná škola Václava Hollara.
• The displayed image is a crop from St. Anne, 1645.
Wenceslaus Hollar, An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess'), about 1513
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Heads of two young women, 1645
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Heads of two young women, 1645
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Rex et Regina de Tunis, 1625-77
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Rex et Regina de Tunis (1625-77)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Two deformed heads facing inwards 1625–77
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads facing inwards (1625–77)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads (1625–77)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads (1625–77)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads facing each other (1645)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads facing each other (1645)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Two deformed heads facing each other (1645)....
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Five grotesque heads, including an elderly man with an oak leaf wreath (1646)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Five grotesque heads, including an elderly man with an oak leaf wreath (1646)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo Da Vinci - St. Anne (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo Da Vinci - St. Anne (1645)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Francesco Bonsignori - Young woman with a scarf on her head, after Bonsignori (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Francesco Bonsignori - Young woman with a scarf on her head, after Bonsignori (1645)
Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair (1648)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair (1648)
Bust of a woman wearing low-cut dress, with protruding lipd, growth on her forehead, prominent breast, long flowing hair down her back, in profile to left.(1660)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, English Lady in Winter Costume (The Winter habit of ane English Gentlewoman), 1644
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, English Lady in Winter Costume (The Winter habit of ane English Gentlewoman), 1644
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Woman of Virginia, ca. 1643
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Woman of Virginia, ca. 1643
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a man with thick curly hair in profile to the left (1640-49)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Title-page to 'Varie Figuræ & Probæ' (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Man with caricatured features and hair streaming behind, in half-length to left (1648)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Man with caricatured features and hair streaming behind, in half-length to left (1648)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Man with stern expression in profile to left (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Title Page, Divers Anticke Faces (1677)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Spring, 1643
Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Summer, 1644
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Summer, 1644
After Wenceslaus Hollar,After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), Francis Place - Helmeted head (1662–78)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
After Wenceslaus Hollar,After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), Francis Place - Helmeted head (1662–78)
After Wenceslaus Hollar,Artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) - Helmeted head (17th century)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
After Wenceslaus Hollar,Artist Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) - Helmeted head (17th century)
After Leonardo da Vinci, Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar - Grotesque old man with flattened nose in profile to left (1625-77)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a man with protruding chin and snub nose looking upwards in profile to left (1625-77)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, After Leonardo da Vinci - Bust of a deformed old woman with one tooth, facing left (1665)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, After Leonardo da Vinci - Bust of a deformed old woman with one tooth, facing left (1665)
After Leonardo da Vinci, Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar - Head of an old man with a pronounced chin, short cropped hair and gaping mouth showing teeth in profile to left (1625-77)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar - Head of a young black boy in profile to right (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Native American Indian, Unus Americanus ex Virginia (1646)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar And Peeter Van Avont - The Young Wine God Bacchus on a Leopard, led by a Satyr (1647)
Original, Taylers Museum. Visited in 2018.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar And Peeter Van Avont - Horn-playing Young Satyrs (1647)
Original, Taylers Museum. Visited in 2018.
Portrait of a Lady
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
After Leonardo da Vinci, Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar - Skull in profile to right (1645)
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
After Leonardo da Vinci, Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar - Skull in profile to right (1645)
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Sectioned skull in profile to left with the left side of the cranium removed, 1651
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Leonardo da Vinci, Sectioned skull in profile to left with the left side of the cranium removed, 1651
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Title page Decapla in Psalmos, 1639
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar, Title page Decapla in Psalmos, 1639
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Four Windmills, 1650
Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-20.
Vaclav - Wenceslaus Hollar After Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Four Windmills, 1650