Albrecht Altdorfer

Altdorfer, Albrecht

(äl`brĕkht ältdôr`fər), 1480–1538, German painter and engraver. He served as city architect of Regensburg, where much of his life was spent. Although influenced by Dürer, Altdorfer's works are less severe in mood. Altdorfer may have been the first German to paint pure landscape, of which the Danube Landscape at Regensburg (1522–25) is typical. His varied subject matter included allegorical and biblical themes such as Susannah at the Bath (1526) and Birth of the Virgin (c.1521). The Battle of Alexander (1529) displays his penchant for detailed, panoramic vistas. All four works are in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Equally skilled at woodcutting and engraving, Altdorfer often executed one subject in a variety of media.

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Wood, Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (London: Reaktion Books, 1993).

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One of the main ways that they accomplish this task is by focusing on designs made by major name artists, such as Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Hans Baldung, and Albrecht Altdorfer. These artists themselves never painted on glass; they were prohibited from doing this by guild regulation (only those artisans who had specifically been trained to paint on glass could do so) (7).

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Painting: The Battle of Issus, 1529, Albrecht Altdorfer, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

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Painter, draftsman, engraver, and architect Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-- 1538) was the first painter in German Renaissance art to depict fantastic landscapes.

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1520, Albrecht Altdorfer, National Gallery, London.

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3 Albrecht Altdorfer Stadel Museum, Frankfurt www.staedelmuseum.de/en

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WOOD is professor of art history at Yale University and the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1993), as well as numerous articles on Northern Renaissance art and the history of art history.

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Working from the premise that "the first independent landscapes in the history of European art were painted by Albrecht Altdorfer" (9), the author attempts to define the salient characteristics of this new mode of landscape in five lengthy chapters.

Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

I foundered in a dense underbrush of seemingly pathless information, description, and analysis, which ranged through the author's sense of the conjunction of "landscape and memory" in northeastern Poland, site of wartime atrocities, home of his Jewish ancestors; lingered on the mythology and reality of the depleted Lithuanian bison and its fate; paused to consider the equally ominous political fate of Poland as a whole during the 18th and 19th centuries; moved on to the German heritage of Teutonic forest lore and myths; and scanted not on the symbolism of oak trees, on forest painters from the 16th-century Albrecht Altdorfer through the 19th-century Caspar David Friedrich to the contemporary Anselm Kiefer, and, finally, on English and American forest stories as well.