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Albrecht Dürer
(1471-1528)
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Northern Renaissance
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum
of all men.
Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportions, 1528
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 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.
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art
theorist. Born in Nürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith
Albrecht Dürer. Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest
known work, one of his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg
in 1528.
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