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Artists›Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer

1480–1538

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None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

248

Works in Collection

367

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Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject. As an artist also making small intricate engravings he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (248)

Landscape with Two Pines

1521 · etching

Platemark: 11.8 x 16.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 11.8 x 16.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Martin Luther

1520 · Engraving, with stippling, in black on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 6.1 × 4.1 cm (2 7/16 × 1 5/8 in.); Sheet: 6.1 × 4.2 cm (2 7/16 × 1 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Holy Kinship

1520 · woodcut on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to block): 12.2 × 9.7 cm (4 13/16 × 3 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Joshua and Caleb

1520 · woodcut on laid paper

block: 12.2 × 9.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 12.4 × 9.7 cm (4 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Abraham's Sacrifice

1520 · woodcut on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to block): 12.2 × 9.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Jael and Sisera

1520 · Woodcut

Sheet: 4 15/16 x 3 13/16 in. (12.6 x 9.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Three Elegant Vessels on a White Background

1520 · Etching

Sheet: 8 1/4 x 5 9/16 in. (21 x 14.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Cleric Kneeling before the Virgin and the Christ Child

1519 · woodcut on laid paper

block: 16.8 × 12 cm (6 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.) sheet: 17 × 12.3 cm (6 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist (c. 1517)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Art Institute of Chicago

The Adoration of the Magi, from The Fall and Redemption of Man (1513)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child (1515/20)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne at the Cradle (1515/20)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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