Painter of the early renaissance. He was the third child of a
family with eighteen children. Worked in his father's workshop
as a goldsmith and afterwards became a pupil of the painter
Michael Welgemut (for three years).
From 1490 he travelled
to Colmar, Basel and Strasbourg. After his return to Nürnberg
he married there in 1494. At the end of 1494 he went to Venice
for half a year, to visit his friend Willibald Pirckheimer who
studied at Padua at the time. From 1505 to 1507 he payed another
visit to Venice where he met Bellini, whom he admired much.
Back
in Germany Dürer studied mathematics, geometry and Latin, read
humanist literature and went to see scholars instead of artists.
In 1512 he became Court Painter to Emperor Maximilian I and
in 1520 he witnessed the coronation of Charles V at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Dürer visited many places in Belgium and was honoured and celebrated
himself. He returned home in bad health (probably because he
had been looking for dead whales in Zeeland, Holland), but he
continued to work until his death in 1528.
Allthough
he had a large workshop in Nürnberg nobody followed into his
footsteps. Apart from his paintings he was also much admired
for his drawings, engravings and woodcuts. Dürer also wrote
treatises on various subjects.
Work: Apocalypse (1498,
woodcut); Madonna of the Rose Garlands (c.1506, Prague, damaged);
Self Portrait (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Related persons
• cooperated with Hirschvogel, Veit
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Sources
• Reeth, Adelaïde van & Guido Peeters, Herinneringen in Steen, De Haan/Unieboek, Houten, 1988
• Schilderkunst van A tot Z, REBO, Lisse, 1990
• Schwemmer, Wilhelm, Nuremberg, A Guide to the Old Town, Nuremberg Tourist Office, Nürnberg, 1991
• Murray, Peter & Linda Murray, The Penguin Dictionary of Arts & Artists, Fourth Edition, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1981
• Dürer Holbein Grünewald, Vernissage - Die Zeitschrift zur Ausstellung, Vernissage-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998
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