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Albrecht Dürer and artworks - Victoria Charles
Self-Portrait of the Artist (with Landscape)
1498. Oil on panel, 52.5 x 41 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Biography
21 May 1471:
Dürer is born in Nuremberg.
1477:
He attends the Public School of Latin.
1484:
Joins his father’s goldsmith workshop.
1486:
Begins his apprenticeship with the painter Michael Wolgemut.
1490-1494:
The travelling years: Freiburg, Colmar, Strasbourg, and Basle.
7 July 1494:
Marries Agnes Frey.
1494:
First journey to Venice via Innsbruck, Klausen, and Trient.
1495:
Returns from Venice with a series of landscape watercolour paintings.
1498:
First graphics cycle with 15 woodcuts for Apocalypse.
1505-1506:
Second trip to Italy; visits Bologna and Ferrara.
1506:
Acquires his house at the Tiergärtnertor in Nuremberg.
1509-1511:
Creates the Small Passion.
1510:
Creates the Great Passion.
From 1512:
In the service of Maximilian I.
1518:
Spends time in Augsburg and travels in Switzerland.
1520-1521:
Travels in the Netherlands.
6 April 1528:
Dürer dies in Nuremberg.
Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirteen
c. 1484. Silverpoint, 27.5 x 19.6 cm. Albertina Museum, Vienna
Introduction
Albrecht Dürer is not simply the artist who created Young Hare, The Large Tuft of Grass or the Study of Hands, symbols of medieval art that have almost degenerated into kitsch. Among the artists of medieval Germany, Albrecht Dürer is without doubt one of the most outstanding figures. He was not only a painter, graphic artist, wood-carver and copper engraver; he was also notable because of his mathematical examinations of the theoretical foundations of art, in the field of geometry in particular, where the transition from the late Gothic style to the Renaissance became the most apparent.
Dürer’s continuous efforts to achieve perfection, together with the then common search for forms, rules and mathematical laws, in order to be able to transform these ideas onto paper and canvas, is reflected in his writings from the second half of his industrious life. He published in 1525 the Instructions on Measurement. There were Latin editions also, published in the years 1532, 1535 and 1605.
Among many other items were the first instructions, written in German, on the construction of sundials. The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and the mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) relied on Dürer’s ideas. In the year of Dürer’s death saw the publication of his four books on human movement: Here are four books on human proportions, discovered and described by Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg for use by all lovers of this art.
In the first three volumes Dürer described and examined types of human bodies, and in the fourth volume he occupied himself with the study of motion.
In contrast to the other artists of this epoch, an unusual amount of information is available on Dürer’s life, his development and the impact of his work. As a contemporary of the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), he stands between the two great Christian persuasions, presenting the Catholics with the Life of Mary (1503-1504), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and The Knight, Death, and the Devil, and Melanchthon (1526). Dürer could never limit the abundance of his ideas.
In addition, there exists a Self-Portrait (1484) by the thirteen-year-old Dürer. As his self-portraits from the years 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1500 show, Dürer occasionally portrayed himself in drawing using the silver pen technique and adding a monogram later by hand, which therefore did not enable later corrections.
As a twenty-year-old he wrote of his ideas in several books on woodcutting (which later were rarely attributed to him). By the age of twenty- four Dürer had produced not only his woodcuts of the Ship of Fools from the year 1494, but also the first copper engravings. In his later years Dürer was involved, sometimes reluctantly, in secondary art production, mainly serving the crown by portraying his powerful Emperor.
Dürer’s models were the masters of Italian art, and he adopted aspects of their work without ever becoming an imitator
or copier of other artists’ work. His works reflect reason, and were mainly created using the intellect.
This is in contrast to Mathias Grünewald (c. 1470/1480-1528), who occasionally exhausted himself completing a single piece of work;