By Viktoria Haigney<Giotto>

[German Northern Renaissance Painter and Engraver, 1471-1528]

ALBRECHT DURER

Albrecht Durer was a 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.

ALBRECHT DURER 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.

Albrecht Durer’s father

THE TRAINING OF DURER Dürer's training also involved travel and study abroad.

He went to Italy in 1494, and returned again in 1505-6. Contact with Italian painters resonated deeply in his art. Influenced by Venetian artists, who were renowned for the richness of their palette, Dürer placed greater importance on colour in his paintings. His Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506), removed any doubt that, as well as a master of prints, he was an accomplished painter.

Dürer was also a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci. He was intrigued by the Italian master's studies of the human figure, and after 1506 applied and adapted Leonardo's proportions to his own figures, as is evident in his drawings. Later in his life, in the 1520's, he illustrated and wrote theoretical treatises instructing artists in perspective and proportion.

RELATIONSHIPS Relationships:  Studied under Michael

Wolgemut.Durer's students included Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Suss von Kulmbach, Georg Pencz, Hans Leonhard Schaufelein and Jan van Scorel

These are just some of Albrecht Durer's paintings

The death Orpheus

Melencolia

These are all engravings by Albrecht Durer

St.Jermoe dans sa cellule

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