Frans Hogenberg
1535 Mechelen, Belgium - 1590 Cologne, Germany
Person TypeIndividual
1679 Marieney, Vogtland, Holy Roman Empire - 1742 Dresden, Holy Roman Empire
1925 Laguna, New Mexico - 2021 Albuquerque, New Mexico
BiographyFrans Hogenberg was a Flemish and German painter, engraver, and mapmaker who worked with Georg Braun to produce The Civitates Orbis Terrarum printed in 1572 and reprinted in 1612, also known as the 'Braun & Hogenberg', a six-volume town atlas. In 1568 he was banned from Antwerp by the Duke of Alva and traveled to London, where he stayed a few years before emigrating to Cologne.