Albrecht Dürer

Introduction & Top Questions
Education and early career
First journey to Italy
Second journey to Italy
Development after the second Italian trip
Service to Maximilian I
Final journey to the Netherlands
Final works

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Images

Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat

Albrecht Dürer: The Virgin with a Multitude of Animals

Albrecht Dürer: The Adoration of the Magi

Albrecht Dürer: Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Painting by Albrecht Durer of Charlemagne in ornate coronation robes and crown, holding a sword and orb, with gold embroidery and regal symbols behind him.

Albert of Brandenburg, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1523

At a Glance

Albrecht Dürer summary

Quizzes

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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.

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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.

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Related Questions

Did Albrecht Dürer and Agnes Frey have children?
How did Albrecht Dürer first learn to draw?
How did Albrecht Dürer help make printmaking a major art form?
How did Albrecht Dürer influence German, Dutch, and Italian artists after his death?
How did Andrea Mantegna influence Albrecht Dürer’s art?
How did Antonio Pollaiuolo influence Albrecht Dürer’s studies of the human body?
How did Giovanni Bellini influence Albrecht Dürer’s paintings?
How did Gothic art influence Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse woodcuts?
How many siblings did Albrecht Dürer have?
How many woodcut prints are in Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse series?
What illness may have caused Albrecht Dürer’s death?
What kinds of works did Albrecht Dürer create for Emperor Maximilian I?
When and where did Albrecht Dürer die?
When and where was Albrecht Dürer born?
When did Albrecht Dürer begin working for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I?
When did Albrecht Dürer first travel to Italy?
When did Albrecht Dürer make his second journey to Italy?
When did Albrecht Dürer paint his earliest known portrait of his father?
When was Albrecht Dürer’s Apocalypse series published?
Where did Albrecht Dürer complete the woodcut St. Jerome Curing the Lion?
Which Albrecht Dürer painting adapted a figure from Antonio Pollaiuolo’s The Rape of Deianira?
Which Albrecht Dürer self-portrait includes a thistle?
Which Albrecht Dürer works are considered his three master engravings of 1513 and 1514?
Which Alpine region inspired Albrecht Dürer’s landscape watercolours?
Which Flemish artists’ works did Albrecht Dürer see in Bruges and Ghent?
Which Renaissance artist exchanged works with Albrecht Dürer in 1515?
Which city did Albrecht Dürer spend most of his second Italian journey in?
Which final Albrecht Dürer painting depicts St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Mark?
Which major altarpiece did Albrecht Dürer complete in Venice in 1506?
Which of Albrecht Dürer’s brothers became a goldsmith?
Which series of Albrecht Dürer woodcuts illustrates the Book of Revelation?
Which subjects did Albrecht Dürer depict in his prints?
Who influenced Albrecht Dürer’s interest in geometric human proportions?
Whom did Albrecht Dürer marry in 1494?
Why are Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings historically important?
Why did Albrecht Dürer describe himself as a gentleman in Venice?
Why is Albrecht Dürer’s Hercules and the Birds of Stymphalis unusual among his works?
Why is Albrecht Dürer so famous?
What is Albrecht Dürer known for?
What was Albrecht Dürer’s family like?
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Albrecht Dürer

German artist

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Eberhard Ruhmer

Curator in Chief, Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich. Author of Cosimo Tura; Grünewald; and others.

Eberhard Ruhmer

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History

Albrecht Dürer (born May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]—died April 6, 1528, Nürnberg) was a 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...

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