ALBRECHT DURER BY: SIOBHAN GREENE
EARLY LIFE -Born in Hungary -Grew up in Nuremburg -Was the 2 nd of 18 children/siblings -Father was a goldsmith -Mother was the daughter of Hieronymus Heifer -Brother of Hans Durer (also a painter) Albrecht Durer ( )
EXPERIENCES -Went to Venice in Exchanged drawings with Raphael -Returned to Nuremberg until Considered one of the first European landscape artists -Used water colors -Known for painting and wood carvings Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (wood carving)
MAJOR WORKS - Albrecht Durer was asked by the German community in Italy to make this for the church The Feast of Rose Garlands
MAJOR WORKS -Oil painted canvas -In love with the idea of a perfect human form Adam & Eve (1507)
OTHER MAJOR WORKS The Knight Death and The Devil Witch riding Backwards On A Goat Young Woman attacked by Death
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