북유럽르네상스-Dürer, Albrecht

Albrecht Dürer

(1471-1528) 

Timeline: Northern Renaissance
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
-- Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportions, 1528

Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]--d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist, 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. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.

Born in Nürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith Albrecht Dürer. Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg in 1528.

During1513 and 1514 Dürer created the greatest of his copperplate engravings: the Knight, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I--all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5 inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerning these three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, allusive, iconographic details. Although repeatedly contested, it probably must be accepted that the engravings were intended to be interpreted together. There is general agreement, however, that Dürer, in these three master engravings, wished to raise his artistic intensity to the highest level, which he succeeded in doing. Finished form and richness of conception and mood merge into a whole of classical perfection.

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Self-Portraits

Self-portrait at 22 (Selfportrait with flower)
1493 (140 Kb); Oil on linen, transferred from vellum, 57 x 45 cm; Musee du Louvre, Paris

Self-Portrait at 26
1498 (140 Kb); Oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Self-Portrait at 28 (Self-Portrait in Furcoat)
1500 (120 Kb); Oil on panel, 67 x 49 cm (26 1/4" x 19 1/4"); Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Engravings

Melencolia I (La Melancolie)
1514 (80 Kb); Gravure sur cuivre, 24 x 19cm

St. Jerome dans sa cellule
1514 (200 Kb); Engraving

Knight, Death and the Devil

St. John devours the book
(Albrecht Durer, 1496-98)

Albrecht Dürer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498.

Putti Dancing and Making Music. 1495. Black ink on paper. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

Albrecht Dürer
Rhinoceros
woodcut, 1515

From the exhibition Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy
British Museum, London
December 5, 2002 through March 23, 2003

A Young Hare. 1502. Watercolour and gouache on paper. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria

The Large Turf. 1503. Watercolour and gouache on paper. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

Wing of a Roller. 1512. Watercolour and gouache on vellum. Graphische Sammlung
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Albertina, Vienna, Austria.Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman
1505 (110 Kb); Oil on panel, 33 x 25 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Portrait of Durer's Father at 70
1497 (130 Kb); Oil on panel, 51 x 40 cm; National Gallery, London