1. Albrecht Dürer

2. LIFE and DEATH Born on May 21, 1471 in Nuremburg, Germany. Died in Nuremburg April 6,1528.

3. Achievements Praying Hands (Betende Hände) is one of Durer’s most famous works. Rhinoceros is a well-known woodcut used in German textbooks to this day, though it is inaccurate, it was drawn from a rough sketch by another artist and a description.

4. Italy Began painting in Italy, and practiced tempera- painting on linen, including portraits and altarpieces. His reputation spread all over Europe. He was on terms of friendship or friendly communication with Raphael and other famous European artists. Here he made his most famous paintings: Adam and Eve (1507), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece the Assumption of the Virgin (1509), and the Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints (1511).

5. Netherlands Here he concentrated on wood and copper engraving. The thirty-seven subjects of the Little Passion on wood, published first in 1511, and a set of fifteen small copper-engravings on the same theme in 1512. In 1513 and 1514 appeared the three most famous of Durer's works in copper-engraving, The Knight and Death, Melancolia, and St Jerome in his Study.

6. Late in Life Sickness in Nuremberg gave occasion to his fourth and last journey. Together with his wife and her maid he set out in July for the Netherlands in order to be present at the coronation of the new Emperor Charles V. He finally returned home in July 1521, having caught an undetermined illness which afflicted him for the rest of his life. He died in 1528 after publishing two books.

7. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Durer www.britannica.com/eb/article- 9031569/Albrecht-Durer http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Albr echt_Durer/biography.html