Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)

Albrecht Durer, famous German engraving artist, painter, sculptor and architect, born at Nurenberg (1471 - 1528). He combines in his art a bafflingly rich imagination, a mastery of color like no other, and a drawing excellence that was for his age simply without equal.

His genius is manifested mostly in his engravings in wood and copper. Albrecht Durer is an excellent portrait painter, but also liked to explore terrible subjects (The Passions of Christ, The Apocalypse, etc.).

His masterpieces are precious documents describing the history of his times. We note from his engravings "The Knight, Death and the Devil", "Melencolia", the "Great Passions" series, and "The Apocalypse"series.

Albrecht Durer was majorly influenced by the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini.

Albrecht Durer "St Jerome in his Study" (1514) Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe	Albrecht Durer "Melencolia" (1514) British Museum	Albrecht Durer "Study of a Drapery" (1508) Musée du Louvre, Paris	Albrecht Durer "Adoration of the Magi (detail)" (1504) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Albrecht Durer "Self-Portrait at 26" (1498) Museo del Prado, Madrid	Albrecht Durer "Adam and Eve" (1507) Museo del Prado, Madrid	Albrecht Durer "The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse" (1489)	Albrecht Durer "Emperor Charlemagne" (1512) Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Albrecht Durer "Studies on the Proportions of the Female Body" (1528) Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg	Albrecht Durer "The Last Supper" (1523) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Christ Among the Doctors (detail)" (1506) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid	Albrecht Durer "Self-Portrait as the Man of Sorrows" (1522) Kunsthalle, Bremen
Albrecht Durer "Study of an Apostle's Hands (Praying Hands)" (1508) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe" (1500) Alte Pinakothek, Munich	Albrecht Durer "St Christopher Facing to the Left" (1521) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Albrecht Durer "The Adoration of the Trinity (detail)" (1511) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Albrecht Durer "St Christopher" (1511) British Museum, London	Albrecht Durer "The Prodigal Son" (1496) Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe	Albrecht Durer "Male and Female Nudes" (1516) Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt	Albrecht Durer "Self-Portrait at 26 (detail)" (1498) Museo del Prado, Madrid
Albrecht Durer "Christ on the Cross with Three Angels" (1523-1525) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Young Hare" (1502) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Self-portrait at 22" (1493) Musée du Louvre, Paris	Albrecht Durer "The Knight, Death and the Devil" (1513)
Albrecht Durer "The Little Owl" (1506) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "The Nativity" (1514) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "St. Michael Fighting the Dragon" (1498)	Albrecht Durer "The Madonna and Child with a Music-making Angel" (1519) Royal Collection, Windsor
Albrecht Durer "The Rhinoceros" (1515) British Museum, London	Albrecht Durer "The Large Passion: 11. Christ in Limbo" (1510) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Adam and Eve" (1504)	Albrecht Durer "Portrait of Barbara Durer" (1490) Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Albrecht Durer "Lot Fleeing with his Daughters from Sodom" (1498) National Gallery of Art, Washington	Albrecht Durer "The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (detail)" (1508) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "The Virgin Mary in Prayer" (1518) Staatliche Museen, Berlin	Albrecht Durer "Hand Study with Bible" () Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
Albrecht Durer "The Women's Bath" (1496) Kunsthalle, Bremen	Albrecht Durer "Young Couple Threatened by Death; or, the Promenade" (1498) Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe	Albrecht Durer "The Large Passion: 6. The Crucifixion" (1498) Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	Albrecht Durer "Walrus" (1521) British Museum, London

Sun-Sentinel	Biblical reading, picture by picture Sun-Sentinel - 6 Feb 2012 at 4:47am His Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are filmy and impressionistic. His picture "Coming in the Clouds" shows the desert, barren tree and limp watch of a Dali picture. Look closely at his more complex canvases, and you may spot Freud, Stalin, Shakespeare ...
">'Visions of the Apocalypse': S. Florida artist paints all 404 verses of Revelation Sun-Sentinel - 3 Feb 2012 at 6:23pm His Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are filmy and impressionistic. His picture "Coming in the Clouds" shows the desert, barren tree and limp watch of a Dali picture. Look closely at his more complex canvases, and you may spot Freud, Stalin, Shakespeare ...
Valley Advocate	Art in Paradise: Italian Echoes Valley Advocate - 17 Jan 2012 at 8:13pm In later efforts, some of them his best known works ( including "Melencolia I," "St. Jerome in His Study," "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"), it's fascinating to observe the dramatic distances his compositions depict. In a print of Adam and Eve, ...