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Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)    The central figure in the German Renaissance was Albrecht Durer, a painter and graphic artist, one of the most outstanding personalities in the history of art.    His early training was in drawing, woodcutting and printing, which were to remain his main and favorite media throughout his artistic career.    He traveled much. In 1490 he left his native city for four year, probably initially visiting Cologne and possibly the Netherlands. He traveled to Italy twice in 1494-95 and 1505-07, visited Venice and Bologna, perhaps Florence and Rome. His fame was broadcasted through his engravings, and artists in Italy were soon drawing on them for ideas. In Venice he knew and admired above all the aged Giovanni Bellini. In 1495 he established his own workshop in Nuremberg.    One of his patrons was the Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony from 1496, whose portrait he painted in 1496. He commissioned Durer to paint several altarpieces: The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (c.1496-1497), The Jabach Altarpiece (c.1503-1504), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508) and The Adoration of the Magi (1504), which is considered to be one of the Durer's masterpieces.    He also painted several self-portraits, which give us the greatest insight into his character and beliefs.    Durer became an early and enthusiastic follower of Martin Luther. His new faith can be sensed in the growing austerity of style and subject in his religious works after 1520. The climax of this trend is represented by The Four Holy Men (1526).    D¨¹rer is the most universal, the most balanced and the greatest of all German artists of any period. Sorted by name - [Ascending] - [Descending]
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