Albrecht Durer b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany]
d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg
Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.
Albrecht Durer The Wire-drawing Mill 1489
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Portrait of the Artist Holding an Erynganeum (mk05) Parchment on canvas 22 1/2 x 17 1/2''(57 x 45 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1922 R.F.2382 (S/AR) Painting ID:: 20959
Albrecht Durer Portrait of the Artist Holding an Erynganeum (mk05) Parchment on canvas 22 1/2 x 17 1/2''(57 x 45 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1922 R.F.2382 (S/AR)
Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (mk08) 1526
Oil on wood,
48x36cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie,
Statliche Museen
zu Berlin-Preubischer Kultcrbesitz Painting ID:: 21277
Albrecht Durer Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher (mk08) 1526
Oil on wood,
48x36cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie,
Statliche Museen
zu Berlin-Preubischer Kultcrbesitz
Self-portrait (mk08) 1498
Oil on wood 52x41cm
Madrid,Museo del Prado Painting ID:: 21354
b.May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nernberg [Germany]
d.April 6, 1528, Nernberg
Albrecht Durer (May 21, 1471 ?C April 6, 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. D??rer introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatise which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.