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Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)
German painter, engraver, draughtsman and art theoretician. Born in Nuremberg in 1471. Initial training as a goldsmith with his father. Then, 1486-89, a pupil of the painter Michael Wolgemut. Between 1490 and 1494 in Colmar, Basle, Strasbourg and elsewhere. In 1494-95 he travelled to Italy for the first time, returning there in 1505-07. He was able to translate the new impulses gained there into a convincing formal language of his own. This confrontation with Italian art proved to be of far-reaching importance for German painting and graphic art. Dürer's friendship with the Nuremberg humanist Willibald Pirckheimer acquainted him with the ideas being discussed in humanist circles. Between 1512 and 1518 he received numerous commissions from Emperor Maximilian I. In 1520-21 he travelled to the Netherlands. He died in 1528 in Nuremberg. |
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