Art · Science · 1471–1528
Born: 21 May 1471 · Died: 6 April 1528 · Age at death: 56
Albrecht Dürer died aged 56. He was born on 21 May 1471 and died on 6 April 1528.
German Renaissance painter and printmaker whose woodcuts, engravings and self-portraits, including the Rhinoceros, spread across Europe
Did you know?He was among the first artists to create a self-portrait as a central subject, completing his first at age thirteen.
Dürer brought the ideas of the Italian Renaissance to northern Europe and became one of the first artists to treat himself as a brand. His remarkably detailed woodcuts and engravings, such as Melencolia I and his famous Rhinoceros, were printed and sold widely, spreading his fame across the continent. He signed his work with a distinctive monogram, an early form of artistic trademark. He was also fascinated by mathematics, proportion and perspective, writing treatises on geometry. His watercolours of plants and animals, such as the Young Hare, are still admired for their almost photographic precision.
Albrecht Dürer ( DURE-ər, German:; 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.
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German painter and printmaker, born 1471
Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg on 21 May 1471.
He made the famous woodcut Rhinoceros in 1515.
He painted a celebrated self-portrait in 1500.
He visited Italy twice.
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Did you know?He drew his famous rhinoceros without ever seeing one.
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