Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - February 12, 1538) was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era.
Albrecht Altdorfer Art Gallery
- Alexander's Victory (The Battle at the Issus)
- Allegory
- Ascension of Christ
- Landscape with Path
- Landscape with Satyr Family
- Large Fir
- Lovers
- Mary with the Child
- Portrait of a Young Woman
- St-George
- Susanna at Her Bath and The Stoning of the Old Men
- The Agony in the Garden
- The Arrest of Christ
- The Departure of St-Florian
- The Martyrdom of St-Florian
- The Nativity
- The Penitence of St-Jerome
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Albrecht Altdorfer Biography
He acquired an interest in art from his father, Ulrich Altdorfer, who was a painter and miniaturist. At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter. He settled in Regensburg, a town located on the Danube River in 1505, eventually becoming the town architect and a town councillor. His first signed works date to c. 1506, including engravings and drawings such the Stygmata of St. Francis and St. Jerome. His models were niellos and copper engravings from the workshops of Jacopo de Barbari and Albrecht Dürer.
Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense[1], making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany. From 1513 he was at the service of Maximilian I in Innsbruck, where he received several commission from the imperial court. During the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, he dedicated mostly to architecture; paintings of the period, showing his increasing attention to architecture, include the Nativity of the Virgin.
In 1529 he executed The Battle of Alexander at Issus for Duke William IV of Bavaria. In the 1520s he returned to Regensburg as a wealth man, and become a member of the city's council. He was also responsible of the fortifications of Regensburg.
In that period his works are influenced by artists such as Giorgione and Lucas Cranach, as shown by his Crucifixion. In 1535 he was in Vienna, where he painted the small panel of St. George in the Forest.
He died at Regensburg in 1538.
The remains of Altdorfer's surviving work comprises 55 panels, 120 drawings, 125 woodcuts, 78 engravings, 36 etchings, 24 paintings on parchment and fragments from a mural for the bathhouse of the Kaiserhof in Regensburg. This production extends at least over the period 1504-1537. He signed and dated each one of his works.
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