Artist: Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528)
Nationality: German
Movement: German School
Media: Engraving, Painting
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Biography:
Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg, Germany to a goldsmith father who taught him the tradition of silverpoint drawing. He apprenticed to painter and book illustrator, Michael Wolgemut beginning in 1484 and learned woodcut engraving. Afterwards, he traveled in Italy, studying work by Leonardo da Vinci, Bellini, and Mantegna, who all influenced his development in art and theory. Dürer is well known for his engravings, however he was also a talented painter who focused on detail and observation.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Wenceslas Hollar, Albrecht Durer,. the elder, 1644
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Johann Nepomick Strixner, Portrait of Albrecht Durer, 1818
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Andreas Jacobsz Stock, Portrait of Albrecht Durer, 1629
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Johann Jacob Haid, Portrait of Albrecht Durer, 18th century
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Francois Forster, Albrecht Durer,after the Self-Portrait, 18th - 19th century
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Gerard Edelinck, Portrait of Albrecht Durer, 17th - 18th century
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Johann Nepomick Strixner, Portrait of Albrecht Durer, 18th - 19th century
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Cincinnati Art Museum German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Carnegie Museum of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - The Prodigal Son n.d. engraving Mead Art Museum, Amherst College German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Smith College Museum of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving on ivory l The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Albrecht Durer - The Last Supper 1523 woodcut Arkansas Arts Center German
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Albrecht Durer - Lot and His Daughters c. 1496-1499 oil on panel National Gallery of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Melencolia I 1514 engraving The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Madonna and Child c. 1496-1499 oil on panel National Gallery of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Portrait of a Clergyman 1516 oil on parchment on National Gallery of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Madonna on a Grassy Bench 1503 engraving Dayton Arts Institute German
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Pat Steir, Self After Durer, 1987
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Melchior Lorch, Portrait of Durer, 1559
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Albrecht Durer - St. Jerome in His Cell (Study) 1514 Engraving Birmingham Museum of Art
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Paul Wunderlich, Durer, His Hand and His Pillow, 1970
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Erhard Schoen, Portrait of Durer, 16th century
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Albrecht Durer - The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb from the Apocalypse 1496-1497 woodcut Arkansas Arts Center German
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Lucas Kilian, Portrait of Albert Durer, 1608
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Lucas Kilian, Portrait of Albert Durer, 1608
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Paul Gottichio, Copy of Durer"s Nativity, 1607
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Pat Steir, Self After Durer As Christ, 1985
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Albrecht Durer - The Death of the Virgin from "The Life of the Virgin" 1510 woodcut on paper Des Moines Art Center German
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Anonymous , Copy after Durer"s The Flagellation, 16th century
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Georg Martin Preissler, Portrait of Durer, 18th century
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Gerard Edelinck, Portrait of Durer, 17th - 18th century
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Pat Steir, Working proof 1 for Self After Durer, State 1, 1987
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Pat Steir, Working proof 2 for Self After Durer, State 2, 1987
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Pat Steir, Working proof 4 for Self After Durer, State 4, 1987
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Anonymous , Copy after Durer"s Deposition from the Cross from the Little Passion, 16th century
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Pat Steir, Working proof 3 for Self After Durer, State 3, 1987
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Jerome Hopfer, Reverse copy of Durer"s "The Flight into Egypt", 16th century
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Anonymous , Copy after Durer"sThe Visitation, from the life of the Virgin, 16th century
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Hans Figura, Albrect Durer"s House in Nurenberg, Germany, 20th century

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