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Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper than for his paintings. With both, the skill of his hand was at the service of the most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Dürer, however, had not the feeling for abstract beauty and ideal grace that Leonardo possessed; but instead, a profound earnestness, a closer interest in humanity, and a more dramatic invention. Dürer was a great admirer of Luther; and in his own work is the equivalent of what was mighty in the Reformer. It is very serious and sincere; very human, and addressed the hearts and understanding of the masses. Nuremberg, his hometown, had become a great centre of printing and the chief distributor of books throughout Europe. Consequently, the art of engraving upon wood and copper, which may be called the pictorial branch of printing, was much encouraged. Of this opportunity Dürer took full advantage. The Renaissance in Germany was more a moral and intellectual than an artistic movement, partly due to northern conditions. The feeling for ideal grace and beauty is fostered by the study of the human form, and this had been flourishing predominantly in southern Europe. But Albrecht Dürer had a genius too powerful to be conquered. He remained profoundly Germanic in his stormy penchant for drama, as was his contemporary Mathias Grünewald, a fantastic visionary and rebel against all Italian seductions. Dürer, in spite of all his tense energy, dominated conflicting passions by a sovereign and speculative intelligence comparable with that of Leonardo. He, too, was on the border of two worlds, that of the Gothic age and that of the modern age, and on the border of two arts, being an engraver and draughtsman rather than a painter.
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Table of contents
1Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer
2Biography
3First graphics cycle with 15 woodcuts for Apocalypse.
4Portrait of Dürer’s Father
51484 Silverpoint on paper, 28.4 x 21.2 cm Albertina Museum, Vienna
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6The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and
7Warrior
8In contrast to the other artists of this epoch, an
91490 Oil on wood, 47 x 38 cm Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
10Death, and the Devil, and Melanchthon (1526).
111490 Oil on panel, 47.5 x 39.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
12of the Ship of Fools from the year 1494, but also
13Courtyard of the Castle in Innsbruck
14Holbein the elder (c. 1465-1524); or even the
15A Young Couple
16and his thoughts independent of other influences.
17During the turbulent transition from the
18fifteenth to the sixteenth century, when America
19The Wire Drawing Mill
20of Martin Schongauer (c. 1450-1491), and in his
21hometown, the council member Pirckheimer (1470-
22DÜRER’S LIFE
23c. 1494 Watercolour and gouache, 23.8 x 35.6 cm Kunsthalle, Bremen
24even more attached to his mother, whom he
25The Church and the Cemetery of Sankt Johann, near Nuremberg
261494 Watercolour on paper, 12.7 x 18.7 cm Albertina Museum, Vienna
27of the precious materials, and of course, the bases
28November 1486, at the age of fifteen, Dürer
29Lion
30printers as a graphic artist for woodcuts. Amongst
31Alpine Landscape
32woodcuts and copper engravings at the Frankfurt
33Later, during his travels to Venice, she
34travels, and some of his drawings from this time
351495 Watercolour on paper, 15.3 x 24.9 cm
361495 Watercolour, gouache, 26.3 x 35.5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
37Mantegna’s influence was The Virgin Worshipping
38distemper on canvas, with the Madonna in the
39Saint George with the slain dragon and Saint
40View of the Valley of Arco
41During these years of change from the
42commissions from the native patricians with
43The portraits of the Tucher family (1499), the
44during this period with laborious copperplate
45Spruce Tree (Picea abies)
46A little later, around 1500, the engraving
47Landscape Study of Water, Sky and Pine Trees
48Fisherman’s House on a Lake, near Nuremberg
49Portrait of a Woman with Hair Pinned Up
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