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Albrecht Dürer
1471–1528
Best known for transforming printmaking into a major art form, this German Renaissance master brought extraordinary detail, drama, and curiosity to everything from self-portraits to studies of nature.
3 Audiobooks
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
by Albrecht Dürer
Of the Just Shaping of Letters
by Albrecht Dürer
About the author
Born in Nuremberg in 1471, Albrecht Dürer became one of the defining artists of the German Renaissance. He worked as a painter, printmaker, and writer on art theory, and his engravings and woodcuts helped spread his reputation far beyond his home city.
His work is admired for its precision, imagination, and close observation of both people and the natural world. Famous images such as Adam and Eve, Melencolia I, Knight, Death and the Devil, and The Rhinoceros show how comfortably he moved between religious subjects, human psychology, and scientific curiosity.
Dürer also traveled in Italy and engaged deeply with Renaissance ideas about proportion and perspective, then brought those ideas into Northern European art in a distinctive way. He died in Nuremberg in 1528, but his prints, paintings, and writings continued to shape artists for generations.