Albert Dürer

INTRODUCTION

Self-portrait (1500)

Albert Dürer was the most important artist in the German Renaissance. He was painter, printmaker and theorist .

BIOGRAPHY

He was born in Nuremberg(actual Germany) in 1472. He studied in a Latin school. His father and Michael Wolgemut taught him about the painting and the printmaking.
When he finished to study, he travelled through some German cities and Venice(1494) He came back to Venice between 1505 and 1507. There, Dürer learn some things about the humanism.

Charlemagne(1512)

Some years before, he had marry and he opened a workshop in Nuremberg. There he painted the Paumgärtner Altarpiece. In this period, he made some works like The Apocalypse, The Great Passion and The Virgin's life.

After his second travel to Italy he painted large works as Adam and Eva. He was named Maximilian I's painter of the court in 1512.

He made some self portraits

Between 1513 and 1514 he made works about .In the last years of his life he made a great altarpiece called The Four Apostles

He died in Nuremberg in 1528

What was happening in the world when he lived?

When he lived, the Renaissance with the Humanism was spreading on Europe. Maximilian I was the Emperor of the Holly Roman Empire (Germany) in this time. When he lived America was discovered, the Middle Age ended and the Modern Age began

The Holly Roman Empire



MAIN WORKS

Self-Portrait 1500 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Self-portrait (1493 Louvre, Paris)

Young Hare (1502 Albertina)

Melancholy I (1514, National Library of France)

Knight, Death and the Devil(1513 Multiple Museum Collections)

Maximilian I ( Kunsthistorisches Museum)

Portrait of Oswolt Krel

Praying Hands (1508 Betende Hände)

Lamentation for Christ (1500–1503 Múnich, Alte Pinakothek)

Adam and Eve (Museo del Prado, Madrid)