Self-Portrait (1530)
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - February 12, 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria.
Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours.
He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject.
As an artist also making small intricate engravings - Altdorfer is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters.
Background Story:
Lovers in a Hay Field (1508)
Holy Night - Nativity (1511)
The Adoration of the Magi (1530 - 1535)
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1509 -1516)
Recover the Body of St. Sebastian (1509 - 1516)
Entombment of Christ (1518)
Resurrection of Christ (1518)
Madonna - Beautiful Maria of Regensburg - (1519 - 1522)
Alpine Landscape with Church (1522)
The Large Spruce (1512 - 1522)
Mary with the Child (1520 - 1525)
Susanna in the Bath (1526)
The Battle of Issus - Detail (1529)
The Battle of Issus - Detail (1529)
Lot and His Daughter (1537)
Portrait of a Woman (1525 - 1530)
The Pride of the Beggar Sitting on the Train of Haughtiness (1531)
Ascension of Christ
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