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Albrecht Dürer

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)

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Albrecht Dürer was a German artist from the Renaissance period (1471-1528) who worked as a painter, printmaker, and mathematician, and also developed influential theories about art. He matters because he was a major figure of the Renaissance who combined artistic skill with intellectual inquiry, helping shape European art through both his creative works and his written ideas about how art should be made and understood.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1471-05-21
Died: 1528-04-06
Works: 15

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Russische Graphik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Alfred Hrdlicka, das druckgraphische Werk
Posada und die mexikanische Druckgraphik 1930 bis 1960
Max Ernst, Druckgrafik
Monika Brandmeier

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1471-05-21
Active to: 1528-04-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 5
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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Albrecht Dürer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon

Profile of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the Great Cardinal

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam

Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the Little Cardinal

Article

Albrecht Dürer (/ˈdjʊərər/ DURE-ər, German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, 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 Emperor Maximilian 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.