Albrecht Dürer

German, 1471 - 1528

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German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471–1528)

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Siege of a Fortress

Albrecht Dürer · 1527 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3691

A clump of leaves with a few stems of tall, yellow blossoms are painted on a vertical sheet of tan-colored parchment. The leaves are long and rounded, with prominent, textured veining. A few blades of grass and sprigs of clover are interspersed among the dense clump of leaves. The cowslip blossoms are clusters of bell-shaped yellow petals at the end of a starburst-like formations of pale green tubes. The ground is painted an earthy gray, and the background is left blank. The artist dated the work, 1526, in the lower right corner over a monogram of his initials, AD.
Albrecht Dürer, Tuft of Cowslips, 1526, gouache on parchment, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.1

Tuft of Cowslips

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · gouache on parchment ·  Accession ID  1991.217.1

Albrecht Dürer, Justice, Truth and Reason in the Stocks with the Seated Judge and Sleeping Piety, probably 1526, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3689

Justice, Truth and Reason in the Stocks with the Seated Judge and Sleeping Piety

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1526 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3689

Albrecht Dürer, The Teacher, the Clergyman, and Providence, probably 1526, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.21

The Teacher, the Clergyman, and Providence

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1526 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1951.10.21

Created with fine black lines printed on cream-white paper, this vertical engraving shows a man facing our left, wearing a cap and voluminous robe as he writes on a sheet of paper. Closest to us and along the bottom edge of the composition, a table or shelf is spread with several books, some upright, some on their sides, and one thick tome laid open. The open book has writing on the pages, but the words are not legible. Beyond the books, the man is shown from the waist up with his body angled to our left. A few curls peek out from the soft, rounded cap that covers his head down to his neck and his forehead, and nearly reaches the top edge of the paper. His face and jowls are deeply lined, and he has deep-set eyes, a long, sloped nose, and his lips are closed. His robe rides high on his shoulders and around his neck, parting at the throat to show a high-collared garment beneath. He gazes down at his hands, which rest on the paper on which he writes. One thick-fingered hand holds the inkwell and the other the pen. The paper and a book underneath it rest on a lectern that angles up toward the writer. The lectern sits on a desk that also holds a short urn with a small bunch of leaves and flowers at the front corner closest to us. Two packets or pieces of folded paper sit next to the lectern. Densely spaced, fine lines create dark shadows in the deep folds of the man’s garments and on the wall behind him. A panel on the wall behind the man reads, in Latin, “IMAGO ERASMI ROTERODA MI AB ALBERTO DVRERO AD VIVAM EFFIGIEM DELINIATA,” which is followed by a Greek inscription, and then, “MDXXXVI.” The artist signed the work with his monogram, consisting of an upper case D straddled by the legs of a wide, upper case A at the bottom center of the panel.
Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3554

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3554

Albrecht Dürer, Time and a Fox Turning the Wheel of Fortune with People of all Ranks to the Right, probably 1526, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.22

Time and a Fox Turning the Wheel of Fortune with People of all Ranks to the Right

Albrecht Dürer · probably 1526 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1951.10.22

Albrecht Dürer, Philip Melanchthon, 1526, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3552

Philip Melanchthon

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3552

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Philip, 1526, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3553

Saint Philip

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3553

Albrecht Dürer, Eobanus Hess, 1526, woodcut, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.3690

Eobanus Hess

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · woodcut ·  Accession ID  1943.3.3690

Albrecht Dürer, The Holy Family on a Grassy Bench, 1526, woodcut on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1946.11.49

The Holy Family on a Grassy Bench

Albrecht Dürer · 1526 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1946.11.49

Bibliography

1943

  • Panofsky, Erwin. _Albrecht Dürer _. 2 vols. Princeton, (1943).

1971

  • Anzelewsky, Fedja. Albrecht Dürer Das malerische Werk. Berlin, 1971.

  • Mende, Matthias. Dürer-Bibliographie. Wiesbaden, 1971.

1982

  • Anzelewsky, Fedja. Dürer. His Art and Life. Translated by Heide Grieve. London, 1982.

1993

  • Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 49-51.