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Albrecht Durer Gallery |
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Praying Hands
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Little Owl
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Gallery Description
Albrecht Durer – (1471-1528)
Albrecht Durer is one of the most gifted painter and and engraver of the German Renaissance and Reformation period, was born in Nuremberg. Born to a goldsmith, Durer practiced much his engraving work in his father’s workshop. Dürer's earliest work was a self-portrait painted at the age of thirteen. Through out his career he painted many more of this revealing at each stage his own frame of mind. He seemed to unit a large measure of self-esteem with a deep sense of human unfulfillment.
During his trip to Venice, he saw the works of Mantegna and was deeply impressed. This made him search for new ideas, theories, and techniques, solutions to the problem of combining realism with abstract concepts. He devoted most of his career to the making of woodcuts and engravings, refining the woodcut to a degree hitherto unknown and taking it to the highest form of graphic art.
Dürer's paintings are examples of beautiful composition, strong rhythm and brilliant colors. His paintings were a fusion between the spirit of the Renaissance and that of the Reformation in serious, moral, and often symbolic subjects. In the final period of his career, his work grew more and more austere in both manner and subject. This indicates that he became more firmly certain of the truth of the ideas of the Reformation. ‘The Four Apostles’ painted in 1526 is a classical work which seems to reconcile the northern Reformation with Italian classical painting.
We have a collection some the best paintings of the great artist. Check out our Albrecht Durer Gallery.
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Saturday, July, 5 th
2008
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