This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective, and ideal proportions.īiography Early life (1471–1490) Self-portrait silverpoint drawing by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his woodcuts revolutionised the potential of that medium.ĭürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. His well-known engravings include the three Meisterstiche (master prints) Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514), and Melencolia I (1514). The woodcuts series are more Gothic than the rest of his work. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.ĭürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I.ĭürer's self-portrait at 28 (1500). Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. Albrecht Dürer ( / ˈ dj ʊər ər/ German: – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.
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