Albrecht Dürer

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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE) was a German Renaissance artist who is considered one of the greatest painters and engravers in history. A native of Nuremberg, Dürer was famous in his own lifetime at home and abroad for his oil paintings, altarpieces, drawings, and engraved prints, as well as for his numerous treatises on art theory. A superb draughtsman with an uncanny eye for detail, Dürer's style blended trends in Italian and Northern European art to push Renaissance art ever further along the road to natural realism.

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  • 1471 - 1528
    Life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
  • 21 May 1471
    The Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer is born in Nuremberg.
  • 1486 - 1489
    The Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer studies as a painter and engraver apprentice under Michael Wolgemut.
  • 1492 - 1494
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer works in Basel providing woodcut prints for books.
  • 1494
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer marries Agnes Fey.
  • 1495 - 1497
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Italy for the first time.
  • 1498
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer creates his series of 15 prints known as The Apocalypse.
  • c. 1500
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer produces his famous self-portrait now in Munich.
  • 1504
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer paints his Adoration of the Magi.
  • 1504
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer creates his Adam and Eve print.
  • 1505 - 1507
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Italy for a second time.
  • 1507
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer buys his house (now a museum) in Nuremberg.
  • 1512 - 1519
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer works as the court artist of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1514
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer produces his Master Engravings collection.
  • 1515
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer supervises the multiple page print, the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian.
  • 1520
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer is appointed the court artist of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1521
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer visits Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, and Cologne.
  • 1525
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer writes Underweysung der Messung, a treatise on geometry.
  • 1526
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer paints his Four Apostles panels.
  • 1528
    The German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer writes his Vier Bücher menschlicher Proportion, a treatise on proportion.
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