Realms of Imagination: Albrecht
Altdorfer and the Expressivity of Art around 1500
Finalists: John
Altdorfer, "Gateway to Gorgeous," Pittsburgh Magazine John Beale, "The Lincoln Highway at 100," Pittsburgh Quarterly Daryln Brewer Hoffstot, "The Motel Era," Pittsburgh Quarterly
Contract award: 13 e 002: lot 1: maintenance and thorough cleaning vocational school centre georg-kerschensteinerschule i + ii with gymnasium and library, lot 2: albrecht
altdorfer high school with sports fields and 4 child care facilities, lot 3: glass cleaning of lots 1 + 2
German painters are also globally competitive, including Albrecht
Altdorfer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grunewald, Hans Holbein the Younger and the well-known Albrecht Durer in the Renaissance period; Cosmas Damian Asam from the Baroque period; and modern artists Anselm Kiefer, romantic Caspar David Friedrich, the surrealist Max Ernst, the conceptualist Joseph Beuys, or Wolf Vostell or the neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz.
Although Cranach and Albrecht
Altdorfer are often coupled as members of the Danube School, there is no evidence, but a strong possibility that they knew each other.
Many significant early modern artists depicted this subject, including Jan van Eyck, Albrecht
Altdorfer, Lucas van Leyden, Lucas Cranach, Lambert Lombard, Hendrik Goltzius, Jan Saenredam, Carlo Cignani, Guercino, Ludovico Carracci, Cigoli, and Artemisia Gentilleschi, to name only a few.
Whether it was Will Grohmann, Arnold Bode, or Werner Haftmann in the West attempting to construct a lineage of uncontaminated German culture from Kandinsky's abstract expressionism of 1912 to the hysterical West German adulation of American Abstract Expressionism in 1959, or whether it was the East Berlin taskmasters of a Zhdanovian socialist realism (particularly insidious in the cases of Wolfgang Mattheuer, Sitte, and Werner Tubke) claiming to carry on the great legacy of German realist painting from
Altdorfer to Cranach or the lesser but more deeply engraved populist tradition from Wilhelm Leibl to Wilhelm Trubner, the first ten years after the founding of the dual republics were marked by deep deceptions.
He came to know the works of such greats as Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Bruegel the Elder, and Albrecht
Altdorfer.
Jones argues that Marlowe's imagination was captured by the same fascination with vastness that emerged in sixteenth-century Europe generally, especially as manifested in the gigantic battle scenes of painters such as Albrecht
Altdorfer, where thousands of soldiers might be depicted fighting on every square inch of a vast plain set in an apocalyptic landscape.
For example, Schama demonstrates convincingly how nationalism in Germany was inseparable from its extensive "wild" forest areas, from the sixteenth-century paintings of the landscape artist Albrecht
Altdorfer to the twentieth-century mythology of the Nazis.
The fish fed freely despite the cold - the competitors had to break the ice before they could start - with Jem Paveley weighing in 16lbs 15oz and third place Karl
Altdorfer scaling 11lbs 10oz.
In 1941, he published in the American journal View a list of his favorite artists, including
Altdorfer, Cranach, Uccello, Carpaccio, Seurat, the Douanier Rousseau, and van Gogh.