Albrecht Altdorfer

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Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.

Called the "Giorgione of the north", he was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations but most notably for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable. He was perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.

His Battle of Arbela (1529), which adorns the Munich Picture Gallery, is generally regarded as his best work. He also procuded numerous engravings on wood and copper. Albrecht's brother, Erhard Altdorfer, was also a painter and engraver, and a pupil of Lucas Cranach.

 

See also

• Early Renaissance painting

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External links

• Albrecht Altdorfer in the "History of Art"
• Page at artcyclopedia.com
• Page at ibiblio.org
• Page at gallery.euroweb.hu
• Page at artchive.com

 

Persondata
NAME	Altdorfer, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH	about 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH	Regensburg
DATE OF DEATH	12 February 1538
PLACE OF DEATH	Regensburg