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    Dürer
    Dürer
    Dürer
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    Dürer

    By Klaus Carl

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    Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper than for his paintings. With both, the skill of his hand was at the service of the most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Dürer, however, had not the feeling for abstract beauty and ideal grace that Leonardo possessed; but instead, a profound earnestness, a closer interest in humanity, and a more dramatic invention. Dürer was a great admirer of Luther; and in his own work is the equivalent of what was mighty in the Reformer. It is very serious and sincere; very human, and addressed the hearts and understanding of the masses. Nuremberg, his hometown, had become a great centre of printing and the chief distributor of books throughout Europe. Consequently, the art of engraving upon wood and copper, which may be called the pictorial branch of printing, was much encouraged. Of this opportunity Dürer took full advantage. The Renaissance in Germany was more a moral and intellectual than an artistic movement, partly due to northern conditions. The feeling for ideal grace and beauty is fostered by the study of the human form, and this had been flourishing predominantly in southern Europe. But Albrecht Dürer had a genius too powerful to be conquered. He remained profoundly Germanic in his stormy penchant for drama, as was his contemporary Mathias Grünewald, a fantastic visionary and rebel against all Italian seductions. Dürer, in spite of all his tense energy, dominated conflicting passions by a sovereign and speculative intelligence comparable with that of Leonardo. He, too, was on the border of two worlds, that of the Gothic age and that of the modern age, and on the border of two arts, being an engraver and draughtsman rather than a painter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781781606254
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      Dürer - Klaus Carl

      Author: Klaus Carl

      Translation: Marlena Metcalf

      Layout:

      Baseline Co Ltd

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      District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

      © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

      © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world.

      Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      ISBN: 978-1-78160-625-4

      Klaus Carl

      Albrecht

      Dürer

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      Introduction

      Dürer’s Life

      The Painter

      The Woodcuts

      The Copper Engravings

      The Drawings

      BIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

      NOTES

      1. Self-Portrait, c.1493.

      Oil on linen, 57 x 45 cm.

      Musée du Louvre, Paris.

      2. Self-Portrait, c.1484.

      Silver point, 27.5 x 19.6 cm.

      Graphische Sammlung, Albertina, Vienna.

      Introduction

      Albrecht Dürer is not only the Young Hare, The Large Turf, or the Praying Hands, symbols of medieval art that have almost degenerated into kitsch. Among the artists of medieval Germany, Albrecht Dürer is without doubt one of the most outstanding figures. He was not only a painter and graphic artist, wood-carver, and copper engraver; he was also notable because of his mathematical examinations of the theoretical foundations of art, in the field of geometry in particular, where the transition from late Gothic style to the Renaissance became the most apparent.

      Dürer’s continuous efforts to achieve perfection, together with the then common search for forms, rules, and mathematical laws, in order to be able to transform these ideas onto paper and canvas, is reflected in his writings from the second half of his industrious life. He published in 1525 the Underweysung der messung mit dem zirckel un richtscheit in Linien ebenen und gantzen corporen, durch Albrecht Dürer zusammen gezogen und zu nutz allen kunstliebhabenden mit zugehörigen figuren in truck gebracht im jar MDXXV. There were Latin editions also, published in the years 1532, 1535, and 1605. Among many other items were the first instructions, written in German, on the construction of sundials. The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and the mathematician Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) relied on Dürer’s ideas. In the year of Dürer’s death the four books on human movement were published: Hierin sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion, durch Albrechten Dürer von Nürenberg erfunden und beschrieben, zu nutz allen denen, so zu dieser kunst lieb tragen. In the first three volumes Dürer described and examined types of human bodies, and in the fourth volume he occupied himself with the study of motion.

      In contrast to the other artists of this epoch, an unusual amount of information is available on Dürer’s life, his development, and the impact of his work. As a contemporary of the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546), he stands between the two great Christian persuasions, presenting the Catholics with the Life of Mary (1503-1504), St. Jerome in his Study (1514), and the Protestants with Knight, Death, and the Devil, and Melanchthon (1526). Dürer could never limit the abundance of his ideas.

      In addition, there exists a Self-Portrait (1484) by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, who, as his self-portraits from the years 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1500 show , occasionally portrayed himself, drawing using the silver pen technique  and adding a monogram later by hand, which therefore did not enable later corrections. As a twenty-year-old he wrote of his ideas in several books on

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