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Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1497
Albrecht Dürer: 1471–1528
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Biography
Albrecht Dürer ( DURE-ər, German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I.
Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts series are stylistically more Gothic than the rest of his work, but revolutionised the potential of that medium, while his extraordinary handling of the burin expanded especially the tonal range of his engravings.
Dürer's introduction of classical motifs and of the nude into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics for linear perspective and body proportions.
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The biography identifies Albrecht Dürer as an artistic influence on Ernst Fuchs (artist). The passage distinguishes modern stylistic influences from the Old Masters whose lighting effects motivated his mixed painting technique. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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The biography identifies Albrecht Dürer as an artistic influence on Pieter Coecke van Aelst. This concerns Coecke's Last Supper: Leonardo's composition, Dürer's apostolic gestures, and Raphael's lost drawing mediated by Raimondi's engraving. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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The biography identifies Albrecht Dürer as an artistic influence on Frederick Sandys. The influence concerns Sandys's magazine illustrations and wood-engraving designs of the 1860s. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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The biography identifies Albrecht Dürer as an artistic influence on Lucas van Leyden. Dürer concerns engraving technique and Gossaert Romanist style. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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The biography identifies Albrecht Dürer as an artistic influence on Jean Duvet. Duvet's work expressly borrows from Dürer; comparisons with Rosso and Pontormo are not direct influence. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art542 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)396 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art322 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art224 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art148 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago83 recorded works
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Belfort24 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly20 recorded works
- Alte Pinakothek — Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen7 recorded works
- musée d'Unterlinden — Colmar6 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes5 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado4 recorded works
- Albertina3 recorded works
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum3 recorded works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie3 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon2 recorded works
- Accademia Carrara1 recorded work
- Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, Germany1 recorded work
- British Museum1 recorded work
- Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland1 recorded work
- musée Danicourt — Péronne1 recorded work
- musée de la faïence Frédéric Blandin — Nevers1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée eucharistique du Hiéron — Paray-le-Monial1 recorded work
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille1 recorded work
- National Gallery1 recorded work
- National Museum in Warsaw1 recorded work
- Staatsgalerie in der Katharinenkirche Augsburg1 recorded work
- Städel Museum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- SMK: exact creator authority reconciliation
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- US museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
