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ALBRECHT DURER BY: SIOBHAN GREENE
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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 (1471- 1528)
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EXPERIENCES -Went to Venice in 1506 -Exchanged drawings with Raphael -Returned to Nuremberg until 1520 -Considered one of the first European landscape artists -Used water colors -Known for painting and wood carvings Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (wood carving)
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MAJOR WORKS - Albrecht Durer was asked by the German community in Italy to make this for the church The Feast of Rose Garlands
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MAJOR WORKS -Oil painted canvas -In love with the idea of a perfect human form Adam & Eve (1507)
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OTHER MAJOR WORKS The Knight Death and The Devil Witch riding Backwards On A Goat Young Woman attacked by Death
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SOURCES http://www.albrecht-durer.org/Young-Woman-Attacked-by-Death;-or,-The- Ravisher.html
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