
Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) was the most influential artist of the Northern Renaissance. The son of a goldsmith, he set up his workshop in 1494 in his native Nuremberg. From here, he produced a wide variety of painted and printed works, from images of saints and Biblical stories to mythology, portraits and scenes of contemporary life.
Dürer was not only a brilliant artist, but also a very clever entrepreneur. He was the first artist fully to exploit the potential of prints – mainly engravings and woodcuts – which could be issued in multiple impressions, circulating his images widely and relatively cheaply. He spread his fame by initialling each with his distinctive AD monogram. By 1497, he was successful enough to employ an agent to handle his foreign print sales. The prints Dürer made were used as objects of devotion, pasted onto walls and into collectors’ albums, and purchased by artists to use as models in their own work.
In 1505, Dürer travelled to Venice to see the Italian Renaissance for himself. Dürer remained in Venice for over a year, making a number of paintings for the German merchant community, before returning to his workshop in Nuremberg, where he was mainly based until his death in 1528.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Burkhard of Speyer
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Holy Family
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Prodigal Son
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Bath House
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Pupila Augusta
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Sea Monster
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
A greyhound
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
St Eustace
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
A Knight, Death and the Devil
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
St Jerome in his study
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
A rhinoceros
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Virgin and Child crowned by an angel
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
A woman abducted by a man on a unicorn
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Virgin and Child crowned by two angels
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Virgin and Child with an angel playing the viol
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
St Anthony
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Triumphal Cart of the Emperor Maximilian
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Willibald Pirckheimer
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Philip Melanchthon
Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514)
Liber chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle)
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Desiderius Erasmus
Michel Haussner (1573-c. 1638)
Standing cup and cover
Probably designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
The Dürer Cup
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion
Friedrich Hillebrandt
Cup and cover
Adriaen de Vries (c. 1556-1626)