Dürer, Albrecht
I holdthat the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
— Dürer, Four Books on Human Proportions, 1528
Dürer,Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]–d.April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and arttheorist, generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. Hisvast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraitsand self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypseseries (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Born inNürnberg as the third son of the Hungarian goldsmith Albrecht Dürer.Began as an apprentice to his father in 1485, but his earliest known work, oneof his many self portraits, was made in 1484. Died in Nürnberg in 1528.
During1513 and 1514 Dürer created the greatest of his copperplate engravings: theKnight, St. Jerome in His Study, and MelencoliaI–all of approximately the same size, about 24.5 by 19.1 cm (9.5 by 7.5inches). The extensive, complex, and often contradictory literature concerningthese three engravings deals largely with their enigmatic, allusive,iconographic details. Although repeatedly contested, it probably must beaccepted that the engravings were intended to be interpreted together. There isgeneral agreement, however, that Dürer, in these three master engravings,wished to raise his artistic intensity to the highest level, which he succeededin doing. Finished form and richness of conception and mood merge into a wholeof classical perfection.
Dürercame from a Hungarian family of goldsmiths, his father having settled in Nurembergin 1455. In The Painter’s Father Dürer shows the face withrespectful sensitivity. The technique is pencil-like, precise, and enquiring;the description achieved has a hard brilliance. However, the rest of thepicture may be incomplete, or not all Dürer’s work. The rudimentarybackground is a far cry from the detailed one in Dürer’s own Self-portrait,and the sitter’s clothing is hardly more than sketched in.
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