Hohle Fels cave
Date
1894
Creator
Ernst Heyn (1841 - 1894, German) , Lithographer
After
Oscar Friedrich von Frass (1824 - 1897, German) , Palaeontologist
Object type
Library reference
RCN60260
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 175mm
width (print): 251mm
width (print): 251mm
Subject
Description
Landscape showing the cave of Hohle Fels, in Swabian Jura of Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
The cave is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site of Upper Paleolithic archaeology, including prehistoric art. The cave system has been excavated extensively and in 2008, it was the source of the ‘Venus of Hohle Fels’. This mammoth ivory figurine is the earliest known representation of a human form.
Plate 3 from Der mensch, by Johannes Ranke, volume 2 (Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1894). The plate is titled below: ‘DIE HOHLE HOHLEFELS IM SCHWABISCHEN ACHTHALE. (nach O.Fraas)’. Signed lower left: ‘Ernst Heyn’.
Johannes Ranke (1836-1916) German physiologist and anthropologist.
The cave is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site of Upper Paleolithic archaeology, including prehistoric art. The cave system has been excavated extensively and in 2008, it was the source of the ‘Venus of Hohle Fels’. This mammoth ivory figurine is the earliest known representation of a human form.
Plate 3 from Der mensch, by Johannes Ranke, volume 2 (Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut, 1894). The plate is titled below: ‘DIE HOHLE HOHLEFELS IM SCHWABISCHEN ACHTHALE. (nach O.Fraas)’. Signed lower left: ‘Ernst Heyn’.
Johannes Ranke (1836-1916) German physiologist and anthropologist.
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