Albrecht Durer

Albrecht Dürerwas a well known German painter and a mathematician and even today is considered as the greatest artist of the northern renaissance. He along with Rembrandt and Goya, is considered to be one of the greatest creators of old master prints. One of the astonishing aspects of this great painter is the range and versatility of his work. He is still considered to be the greatest and finest printmakers of all times. Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings made him famous across Europe. As a masterful oil painter, Dürer was even more successful at religious and secular subjects, producing magnificent altarpieces and powerful portraits. Till this date, his drawings and watercolours are impressive for their diversity of subject-matter. He also gets credited for the varied media in which they were produced. Dürer was believed to have a major influence on the development of European art.

Albert Dürer was born and died in Nuremberg, Germany and is best known for his prints. His prints were often executed in series, fro instance the Apocalypse (1498) and his two series on the passion of Christ, the Great Passion (1498–1510) and the Little Passion (1510–1511). Dürer's best known individual engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514). This has been the subject of the extensive analysis and assumption. When Albrecht Dürer was in his twenties, his prints had already established his reputation across Europe, and he has been typically regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe ever since.