Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471–1528
Born in Nuremberg; died in Nuremberg.
Dürer trained as a goldsmith with his father and then under the Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut, whose studio produced woodcut book illustrations. Two journeys to Italy brought him into contact with Venetian painting and the theory of proportion, which he set out to bring north. He raised woodcut and engraving to new heights of detail and ambition, issuing his own series such as The Apocalypse and The Life of the Virgin, and his engraving Adam and Eve of 1504 shows his study of the ideal human figure.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 8 worksDated 1496–1522
- Mostly
- Drawing, Prints
- Movement
- RenaissanceEuropean art from about 1400 to 1600, when painters rediscovered perspective and the classical past.
