# 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._

8 works in the collection.

- [Virgin and Child with Saint Anne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/virgin-and-child-with-saint-anne-met-436244), Albrecht Dürer, probably 1519. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Circumcision of Christ, from The Life of the Virgin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-circumcision-of-christ-from-the-life-of-the-virgin-aic-43925), Albrecht Dürer, c. 1505, published 1511. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Arm of Eve](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/arm-of-eve-cma-141931), Albrecht Dürer, 1507. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Music-Making Angels](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/music-making-angels-met-334816), Albrecht Dürer, 1521. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Adam and Eve](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/adam-and-eve-met-336222), Albrecht Dürer, 1504. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Melencolia I](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/melencolia-i-met-336228), Albrecht Dürer, 1514. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Head of a Young Woman](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/head-of-a-young-woman-met-459211), Albrecht Dürer, 1522. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Saint John before God and the Elders](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/saint-john-before-god-and-the-elders-nga-52557), Albrecht Dürer, probably c. 1496/1498. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.