Albrecht Dürer

(noun)

(1471–1528) A German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg, often regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance.

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Examples of Albrecht Dürer in the following topics:

  • German Woodcuts

    • The greatest artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer, began his career as an apprentice to a leading workshop in Nuremberg, that of Michael Wolgemut, who had largely abandoned his painting to exploit the new medium.
    • Dürer worked on the most extravagantly illustrated book of the period, The Nuremberg Chronicle, published by his godfather Anton Koberger, Europe's largest printer-publisher at the time.
    • After completing his apprenticeship in 1490, Dürer traveled in Germany for four years and to Italy for a few months before establishing his own workshop in Nuremberg.
  • Hatching and Cross-Hatching

    • Albrecht Dürer is a particular example of an artist who perfected the technique, employing it in much of his drawn and printed work .
    • Albrecht Dürer uses hatching and cross-hatching in both the background and foreground of this image.
  • Single Sheets

    • By the time he was in his twenties, he had an established reputation across Europe, and many young printmakers are known to have gone though periods of copying Durer's work before adapting his technical advances to their own styles.
    • Albrecht Durer originally studied to be a goldsmith, but instead went the way of the artist and subsequently became one the most well known in history.
    • Albrecht Durer, a painter, printmaker, engraver and mathematician, was perhaps one of the most well-known of the Northern artists.
  • The Role of the Artist

    • The work of Albrecht Durer demonstrates a very technical and accurate depiction of imagery in works such as "Young Hare" .
    • "Young Hare" by Albrecht Durer is an example of art that is realistically rendered.
  • Panel Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • Albrech Durer is a well known artist of the Northern Italian Renaissance who found a patron in Emperor Maximillian I.
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    • Like most painters during this time period, Durer painted on wood panels.
    • This self portrait of Albrecht Durer was painted on a wood panel, as the canvas had yet to become the prevalent medium of choice.
  • Qualities of Line

    • Hatch lines are visible in this detail from Albrecht Dürer's Veronica
  • German Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • One of a small number of Germans with the means to travel internationally, Nuremberg born Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) helped bring the artistic styles of the Renaissance north of the Italian Alps after his visits to the Italian peninsula in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
    • Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
    • One of Dürer's paintings that display a clearly classical rendering of the body is Adam and Eve (1507), the first full-scale nude subjects in German painting.
    • Likely the first landscape painter in Early Modern Europe, Dürer honed his landscape painting skills working en plein air at home and during his travels.
    • Discuss the work of Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein, Altdorfer, and other artists of the Danube school during the Holy Roman Empire in Germany
  • Painting and Other Forms of Art

    • The greatest artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer , began his career as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut, who had largely abandoned his painting to exploit the new medium.
    • Dürer worked on the most extravagantly illustrated book of the period, the Nuremberg Chronicle, published by his godfather Anton Koberger, Europe's largest printer-publisher at the time.
    • The Danube School is the name of a circle of artists of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria, including Albrecht Altdorfer, Wolf Huber and Augustin Hirschvogel.
    • Albrecht Dürer is thought to be the greatest artist of the German Renaissance
  • Varieties of Line

    • Albrecht Dürer employs hatch and cross-hatch lines in this silverpoint self portrait.
  • Engraving

    • The characteristics of early metal engraving in Germany are best demonstrated in the works of Martin Schongauer (c. 1448 - 1491) and Albrecht Dürer (1471 -1528).
    • Dürer continued Schongauer's curved shading, with increasing manual delicacy and skill, and over-loaded his plates with quantities of living and inanimate objects.
    • In the last five years of the fifteenth century, Dürer, then in his late twenties with his own workshop in Nuremberg, began to produce woodcuts and engravings of the highest quality.
    • Copying of prints was already a large and accepted part of the printmaking culture but no prints were copied as frequently as Dürer's .
    • Dürer continued Schongauer's curved shading, with increasing manual delicacy and skill, and over-loaded his plates with quantities of living and inanimate objects.
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