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Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]--d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altar pieces 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 .Drawings of Albrecht Durer
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German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist. Born in Nürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith Albrecht Dürer. Dürer came from a Hungarian family of goldsmiths, his father having settled in Nuremberg in 1455. He began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. He died in Nürnberg in 1528.
           
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During 1513 and 1514 Dürer created the greatest of his copperplate engravings: the Knight, St. Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia I--all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5 inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerning these three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, elusive, iconographic details. Although repeatedly contested, it probably must be accepted that the engravings were intended to be interpreted together. There is general agreement, however, that Dürer, in these three master engravings, wished to raise his artistic intensity to the highest level, which he succeeded in doing. Finished form and richness of conception and mood merge into a whole of classical perfection
           
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List of his famous pictures:
Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin. Alte Pinakothek, Munich
           
Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer The Paumgartner Altarpiece. Alte Pinakotek, Munich
           
Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer The four Holy Men. Alte Pinakothe, Munich
           
Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer Adam and Eve. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
           
A young Hare, Durer A Young Hare .Click here to buy the print. Original picture located in Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
           
Artist: Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer  Christ among the Doctors. Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
           
Artist: Durer, Artist in the Artist Garden: Albrecht Durer A Large Turf. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
  Durer, tall grass printTall Grass   Durer prints        
Dürer seems to have united a large measure of self-esteem with a deep sense of human unfulfillment. There is an undercurrent of exigency in all he does, as if work was a surrogate for happiness.
           

Durer   Self Portrait.1498 .Click the link to buy the print.

Original Oil on panel; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

 
Dürer's influence on 16th century art was enormous. His prints were widely disseminated, and his work was admired not only in Northern Europe but also in Italy, where certain aspects of his style helped to give rise to Mannerism.
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