Albrecht Dürer is regarded as the most important German painter, draftsman and copperplate engraver of Renaissance. He brought the graphic discipline to technical perfection.
Born: 21 May 1471 in Nuremberg
Died: 06 April 1528 in Nuremberg
During his life, Albrecht Dürer undertakes three comprehensive journeys, one of which brings him to Italy and greatly enriches his artistic self-understanding and technical skills. His graphic works are just as important as his religious paintings. However, the three engravings “Saint Jerome in His Study”, “Knight, Death, and the Devil” and “Melencolia I” protrude from them, and their high symbolic content provokes art-historical studies down to the present day. Albrecht Dürer, who is extremely proficient in business and soon becomes known far beyond the German borders, expresses his new self-confidence by means of self-portraits, which show him as the creator of these images in an attitude, which until now has been attributed only to religious figures. In addition, he creates two important portraits of Emperor Maximilian, who grants the artist a life-long annual salary. Albrecht Dürer is rated in one line with Renaissance artists such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Bernini, etc., due to his comprehensive education, his mastery of painting, and his artistic enthusiasm for experimentation.
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Oil Paintings