Ulrich Varnbüler
1522 (published c. 1620)
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Publisher, Dutch, 1571 - 1638

Artwork overview
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Medium
chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to block): 43 x 33 cm (16 15/16 x 13 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3687
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 256, State 3a
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 204, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 48.
1984
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
2007
The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 256.
Inscriptions
In block, at upper right: VLRICHVS VARNBVLER ZC.M. D. XII; in block, on cartouche at right: Albertus Durer Noric[u]s hac imagine Vlrichum cognom[en]to / Varnbuler Ro[mani] Caesarei Regimini[s] / in Imperio, a Secretis, simul[ar]chi / gramateum, vt quem amet / vnice, etiam posteriati [vult]t / cognitum reddere c[olore] que / conatur (Albrecht Durer of Nuremberg wishes to make known to posterity and to preserve by this likeness his singular friend, Ulrich surnamed Varnbüler, Chancellor of the Supreme Court of the Roman Empire at the same time privately a distinguished scholar of language. [translation from Bartrum, Giulia. German Renaissance Print, 1490-1550, p.58. London: British Museum Press, 1995.])
Wikidata ID
Q18339752