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Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second ha... more Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second half of the 16th century. Reviewing his career, we find a typical urban master who worked for the court, the city and individuals alike. His repertoire included almost everything, from tiny prints to painting the clock of the town hall. His clients from Hungary were people present in Vienna at that time, concentrated around the joint court of the composite Habsburg Monarchy. Archbishop of Esztergom Miklós Oláh (Nicolaus Olahus) the head of the Hungarian Court Chancellery, commissioned him to make a copy of his engraved portrait (1560–1562). János Zsámboky (Johannes Sambucus), who was in the service of the court as a humanist, ordered two works from him. With an illustrated broadsheet (prepared in 1564–1565) he perpetuated the coronation of Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg as king of Hungary in Pozsony in 1563, adorned with a woodcut by Donat, a Pozsony veduta and a detailed depiction of the coronation festivities. In 1566 Zsámboky had him copy the first printed map of Hungary, Lazarus’ Tabula Hungariae (1528). In the oeuvre of the artist further works of Hungarian relevance can be found, including the portrait of Hans Francolin the Younger, the Hungarian herald of King Ferdinand I, in his Tournament Book (1561).
It is also possible that yet another group of works (1572–1573) may also be subsumed in the oeuvre of Hübschmann which is connected to the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna. It includes four letters patent (grants of arms, Wappenbrief) the calligraphic ornament of which can be attributed to György (George) Bocskay (d. 1575) and the illuminated arms of which were painted by a master indicated by the initials “DH”, i. e. very probably Donat Hübschmann. Each charter was made for an important Hungarian person of the age connected to the Viennese court: János Pethő de Gerse III (1525–1578, royal master of chamberlains, captain general of the major border fortress Komárom), János Liszthy (Johannes Listhius, d. 1577, chancellor of the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna), Sebestyén Thököly (d. 1607, a commodity trader), and János Zermegh (c. 1504–1584, councilor of the Hungarian Court Chamber in Pozsony, historiographer).
It is also possible that yet another group of works (1572–1573) may also be subsumed in the oeuvre of Hübschmann which is connected to the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna. It includes four letters patent (grants of arms, Wappenbrief) the calligraphic ornament of which can be attributed to György (George) Bocskay (d. 1575) and the illuminated arms of which were painted by a master indicated by the initials “DH”, i. e. very probably Donat Hübschmann. Each charter was made for an important Hungarian person of the age connected to the Viennese court: János Pethő de Gerse III (1525–1578, royal master of chamberlains, captain general of the major border fortress Komárom), János Liszthy (Johannes Listhius, d. 1577, chancellor of the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna), Sebestyén Thököly (d. 1607, a commodity trader), and János Zermegh (c. 1504–1584, councilor of the Hungarian Court Chamber in Pozsony, historiographer).