Born in Nuremburg, the son of a goldsmith, Albrecht Dürer (1471 -1528) advanced landscape painting with his extraordinarily atmospheric scenes. His innovative paintings, engravings and woodcut book-illustrations were the conduit through which the ideas of the Italian renaissance passed to northern Europe. He is one of the great masters of sixteenth century art.
Born in Nuremburg, the son of a goldsmith, Albrecht Dürer (1471 -1528) advanced landscape painting with his extraordinarily atmospheric scenes. His innovative paintings, engravings and woodcut book-illustrations were the conduit through which the ideas of the Italian renaissance passed to northern Europe. He is one of the great masters of sixteenth century art.