Albrecht Dürer
First and last name
Albrecht Dürer
Date of birth
1471, Nuremberg
Date of death
1528, Nuremberg
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and art theorist. He is regarded as the most outstanding artist of the German Renaissance. As a young man, he apprenticed in the studio of the famous master of late medieval painting, Michael Wolgemut. Dürer made a special contribution to the development of wood engraving and copper engraving, the former of which he helped to establish as an independent work of fine art. During his travels to Italy, the artist admired the art of Venice, Mantua and Padua, and later introduced some of the solutions of the arts of these areas into his own solutions.