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Apr 5, 2024 · Albrecht Dürer (born May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]—died April 6, 1528, Nürnberg) was a painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
Albrecht Dürer ( / ˈdjʊərər /; [1] German: [ˈʔalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [2] [3] [1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his ...
- 6 April 1528 (aged 56), Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
- German
- Adalbert Ajtósi, Albrecht Durer, Albrecht Duerer
Salvator Mundi. Albrecht Dürer German. ca. 1505. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 607. This picture of Christ as Savior of the World, who raises his right hand in blessing and in his left holds an orb representing the Earth, can be appreciated both as a painting and a drawing.
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Biography Dürer was born in Nuremberg, the son of a successful Hungarian goldsmith. His godfather was Anton Koberger, the leading German publisher of his day, whose best-selling Nuremberg Chronicle of 1494 contained illustrations designed by the painter Michel Wolgemut, with whom Dürer served three years of apprenticeship from 1486-9.
One of the greatest engravers in history, he was also the man who elevated woodcut to the status of fine art and was a superlative maker of drawings in a wide variety of media, including watercolor. His altarpieces and portraits in oil, except for the sumptuous Munich Self Portrait in Fur (1500), are less well known.
Oct 14, 2020 · Albrecht Durer (Public Domain) Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE) was a German Renaissance artist who is considered one of the greatest painters and engravers in history. A native of Nuremberg, Dürer was famous in his own lifetime at home and abroad for his oil paintings, altarpieces, drawings, and engraved prints, as well as for his numerous ...
October 2002. A supremely gifted and versatile German artist of the Renaissance period, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was born in the Franconian city of Nuremberg, one of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
