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Encyclopedia > Albrecht Altdorfer
The Battle of Alexander (1529) Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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The Battle of Alexander (1529)
Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. Download high resolution version (809x1039, 184 KB)The Battle of Alexander by Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life... Download high resolution version (809x1039, 184 KB)The Battle of Alexander by Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life... Events Great standing on the Ugra river - Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde. ... Regensburg (English formerly Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona, Czech Řezno) is a city (population 146,824 in 2002) in Bavaria, south-east Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events Treaty of Nagyvarad. ... Regensburg (English formerly Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona, Czech Řezno) is a city (population 146,824 in 2002) in Bavaria, south-east Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Categories: Art stubs | Art movements ... Self-Portrait, 1493, Oil on Canvas Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter, wood carver, engraver, and mathematician. ...


He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.


His "Battle of Arbela" adorns the Münich Picture Gallery.


See also: Early Renaissance painting Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Wife by Jan van Eyck (1434). ...

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Albrecht Altdorfer - LoveToKnow 1911 (152 words)
ALTDORFER 1480-1538), German painter and engraver, was born at Regensburg (Ratisbon), where in 1505 he was enrolled a burgher, and described as "twenty-five years old." Soon afterwards he is known to have been prosperous, and as city architect he erected fortifications and a public slaughterhouse.
Altdorfer has been called the "Giorgione of the North." His paintings are remarkable for minute and careful finish, and for close study of nature.
Albrecht's brother, Erhard Altdorfer, was also a painter and engraver, and a pupil of Lucas Cranach.
History of Art:The High Renaissance, Mannerism - Albrecht Altdorfer (3244 words)
Altdorfer spent most of his life in Regensburg, becoming a citizen in 1505 and in later years serving as official architect of the city and a member of its inner council.
Altdorfer's masterpiece, the “Battle of Alexander at Issus” (1529; Alte Pinakothek, Munich), is both a battle scene of incredible detail and a highly dramatic and expressive landscape.
Altdorfer's interest in the changes caused by light at different times of the day and the changes of the seasons of the year, as well as the continuous cycle of growth, decay, and rebirth, link him spiritually with both Baroque and the 19th-century Romantic landscapists.
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