St. George and the Dragon (1520): Art, History and Details

St. George and the Dragon (1520) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Landscape draftsman Wolfgang Huber made only a few prints. In this woodcut, he developed ideas from his drawings, such as the radiating light, agitated clouds, and soaring trees. Here, he applied these ideas to the story of Saint George slaying the dragon. Huber rendered the figures with the same short marks as the trees and rocks surrounding them so that they appear to blend into the landscape.

Object facts

• Title: St. George and the Dragon
• Date: 1520
• Creator attribution: Wolfgang Huber (Austrian, 1490–1553)
• Culture: Austria
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Sheet: 20.7 x 15.5 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1971.60

A detail from the museum

Despite written legends placing Saint George’s slaying of the dragon in North Africa, this scene takes place in a Northern European forest.

Collection credit

Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland through fiftieth anniversary donations

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.