Altdorfer, Albrecht (1480c.-1538) - 1513c. Nativity (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

            German painter and graphic artist working, he was the leading artist and guiding spirit of the Danube School.   His training is unknown, but his early work was influenced by Cranach and Dürer's art.   Mingled with these German impressions was a knowledge of the art of Mantegna.   Yet in spite of these varied influences Altdorfer's style always remained personal.  Most of his paintings are religious works, but he was one of the first artists to show an interest in landscape as an independent genre. He was the first European to paint forests, sunsets, and picturesque ruins, in which he represented man as part of nature, allied with trees, rocks, mountains, and clouds and often resembling them. 

The fantastic element that pervaded his paintings was also prominent in his drawings, most of which were done with black and white lines on brown or blue-gray paper.  His engravings and woodcuts, usually miniatures, were distinguished by their playful imaginativeness.    From 1526 until his death Altdorfer was employed as town architect of Regensburg.  No architectural work by him is known, but his interest in architecture and his skill in handling intricate problems of perspective are demonstrated by his Birth of the Virgin (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

Taken on: January 25, 2010

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