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Albrecht Dürer Art

German, 1471-1528

Albrecht Dürer revolutionized woodcut printmaking as an artform and his influence over the medium's practitioners has endured for centuries. Revered for his masterfully detailed prints and drawings, the German artist was driven by boundless curiosity. Dürer was the Renaissance personified in 16th-century northern Europe — he was more deeply engaged in the pursuits of the era’s Italian painters than any other artist from the region, an attribute that earned him the title “Leonardo of the North.”

Trained initially as a goldsmith in his father’s workshop, Dürer’s talent for art materialized early, in a self-portrait at the age of 13 in 1484. Held in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, this silverpoint drawing is one of the oldest extant self-portraits in European art. 

While Dürer traveled extensively, his two stays in Venice, which took place during the turn of the 16th century, were among the most influential. There he became increasingly acquainted with the work of great Italian artists including Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Leonardo da Vinci and a young Raphael. Naturally, Dürer found great inspiration in the Venetians’ theoretical interests, techniques, use of color and more.

Over the course of his career, Dürer received commissions from Frederick the Wise-Elector of Saxony, Emperor Maximilian I and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. At one point he was commissioned to draw the first living rhinoceros seen in Europe since the Roman Empire. Despite having never actually seen the animal, Dürer made the now-famous c. 1515 woodcut based on one written account and brief sketch. For years it remained the common interpretation of what rhinos looked like to Europeans.

Dürer’s woodcuts were widely disseminated during his time, and he is the best known artist associated with the Northern Renaissance. His breathtaking technical prowess is most prominent in his three master engravings — Saint Jerome in His Study, Melencolia I and Knight, Death, and the Devil — profoundly influential works that are characterized by rich textures and meticulously detailed imagery.

Dürer’s work is in the collections of many museums, including the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while his former home in Nuremberg, Germany, has been converted into a museum dedicated to his legacy. Important works like Hare and Praying Hands can be found in the Albertina, while his second famous self-portrait from 1500 — which depicts Dürer in a fur-trimmed robe — is on display in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

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Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Samson Killing the Lion
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Zürich, CH
The woodcut is listed as Bartsch: 2, Medes: 107d. Upon returning from his 1495 trip to Italy, Albrecht Dürer produced large woodcuts of unprecedented complexity culminating in his S...
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15th Century and Earlier Albrecht Dürer Art

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Woodcut

Saint Michael fighting the Dragon
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Zürich, CH
"Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (B. 72; M., Holl. 174)" This engraving is a print from the Latin publication of the text of the Apocalypse of 1511. Dürer’s series dedicated to the Apocalypse comprises 15 engravings and a title sheet. The master worked on this series from 1496 to 1498. In 1511, Dürer repeated his Latin edition and provided it with a prohibition on the series being copied. The Apocalypse was intended for extremely varied levels of society. All of the sheets are united by the theme of the battle between good and evil. The work refers to a quote from the Revelation of St. John the Divine: “And there was war in heaven...
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16th Century Albrecht Dürer Art

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Engraving

Saints Stephen, Sixtus, and Laurentius
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1504 Woodcut on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (215 x 148 mm), thread margins. Significant expert repairs to lower right sheet edge, and center right sheet edge. Mino...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Laid Paper, Woodcut

Die Heimsuchung (from Marienleben)
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in London, GB
This is one of twenty woodcuts that together comprise The Life of the Virgin, a series on which Dürer worked for some ten years. Seventeen of these woodcuts were finished when the artist left for Italy in 1505. (There they were copied as engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi—much to Dürer’s chagrin.) Dürer finished the last two woodcuts as well as the frontispiece only in 1510. The set was then published in 1511 together with The Large Passion, accompanied by Latin verses written by the Benedictine monk Benedictus Cheledonius. On this occasion Dürer also reissued his Apocalypse series in order to offer his Große Bücher (Great Books...
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16th Century Albrecht Dürer Art

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Woodcut

Der zwoelfjaehrige Jesus im Tempel - Christ among the doctors
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in London, GB
This is one of twenty woodcuts that together comprise The Life of the Virgin, a series on which Dürer worked for some ten years. Seventeen of these woodcuts were finished when the artist left for Italy in 1505. (There they were copied as engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi—much to Dürer’s chagrin.) Dürer finished the last two woodcuts as well as the frontispiece only in 1510. The set was then published in 1511 together with The Large Passion, accompanied by Latin verses written by the Benedictine monk Benedictus Cheledonius. On this occasion Dürer also reissued his Apocalypse series in order to offer his Große Bücher (Great Books...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Woodcut

Madonna with a Swaddled Infant
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Dated and signed with the artist’s monogram on a tablet lower left. A superb, richly inked 16th century/lifetime Meder “a” (o...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Engraving

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, ca. 1500
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in New York, NY
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – Nuremberg – 1528), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne ca. 1500, engraving; 115 x 71 mm (4 ½ x 2 13/16 inches), B...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Engraving

The Holy Family with Two Musical Angels"
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper bearing the “Large Bear” watermark (Meder 89, typically seen in the earliest impressions of this woodcut).  Dated in the block ...
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Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Woodcut

Madonna and Child with the Monkey
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
A good, clear later 16th century Meder “l” impression, showing strong contrasts throughout, printed after the appearance of the dot in the clouds upper center.  Catalog: Bartsch 42;...
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18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Art

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Engraving

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