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Albrecht Dürer
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Regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) incorporated Italian Renaissance themes and styles in his work. Perhaps seeing himself as an “artist-prince,” Dürer characteristically portrayed himself in self-portraits as one certain of his own brilliance.[1]
Dürer was born on May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany, an independent city-state within the Holy Roman Empire. He first worked under his father, a goldsmith, as a draughtsman. In 1484, Dürer completed his first work, a silverpoint self-portrait. The thirteen-year-old portrays himself with an air of confidence, reflecting self-awareness of his advanced artistic abilities.[2] Just two years later, he began an apprenticeship under the painter and woodcut illustrator Michael Wolgemut. In 1490, at age nineteen, Dürer completed his first painting: a portrait of his father.
Dürer began traveling through Northern Europe in 1490. In 1492, he stopped in Colmar, France, where he found inspiration from engravings by Marti German painter, printmaker and theorist (1471–1528) Albrecht Dürer (DURE-ər,[1]German:[ˈalbʁɛçtˈdyːʁɐ];[2][3][1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),[4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by EmperorMaximilian I. Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts series are stylistically more Gothic than the rest of his work, but revolutionised the potential of that medium, while his extraordinary handling of the burin expanded especially the tonal range of his engravings; well-known engravings include the three Meisterstiche (m Painter and printmaker 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. Dürer was the second son of the goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder, who had left Hungary to settle in Nuremberg in 1455, and of Barbara Holper, who had been born there. Dürer began his training as a draughtsman in the goldsmith's workshop of his father. His precocious skill is evidenced by a remarkable self-portrait done in 1484, when he was 13 years old (Albertina, Vienna), and by a Madonna with Musical Angels, done in 1485, which is already a finished work of art in the late Gothic style. In 1486, Dürer's father arranged for his apprenticeship to the painter and woodcut illustrator Michael Wohlgemut, whose portrait Dürer would paint in 1516. After three years in Wohlgemuth's workshop, he left for a period of travel. In 1490
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