Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer, born May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, where he died on April 6, 1528, is a German painter, engraver and painter also known as the theoretician of the geometry of linear perspective. He signed Albertus Dürer Noricus or Dürer Alemanus or, more often, his monogram.
Albrecht Dürer is the third child of Albrecht Dürer the Elder, a goldsmith from Ajtós in Hungary who arrived in Nuremberg in 1455, and Barbara Holper, daughter of a Nuremberg goldsmith.
At age 13, he began his three-year apprenticeship and learned to use the chisel and tip. Seeing his son's gifts for drawing, his father allowed him to enter the studio of a painter; At the end of 1486, he became the apprentice of Michael Wolgemut, with whom he learned how to handle pen and brush, to copy and draw from nature, to paint landscapes with water and oil.
Almost immediately, in the autumn of 1494, he left his wife for a trip to Northern Italy, mainly to Venice and perhaps Padua, Mantua and Cremona. His friend Pirkheimer was then a student in Pavia. On the way back he painted in the Alps a series of landscape watercolors.
Some of his works
Self-Portrait 1498
Great Piece of Turf 1503
Portrait of a Venetian Woman 1505
St. Jerome in the Wilderness
Portrait of Jakob Fugger 1520
