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Albrecht Altdorfer
German
1480-1538
Albrecht Altdorfer Galleries
He most often painted religious scenes, but is mainly famous as the first frequent painter of pure landscape, and also compositions dominated by their landscape. Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun. His Landscape with footbridge (National Gallery, London) of 1518-20 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour. His best religious scenes are intense, sometimes verging on the expressionistic, and often depict moments of intimacy between Christ and his mother, or others. His most famous religious artwork is the The Legend of St. Sebastian and the Passion of Christ that decorated the altar in the St. Florian monastery in Linz, Austria. He often distorts perspective to subtle effect. His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries. He also painted some portraits; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.
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Painting ID:: 21370
The Agony in the Garden (mk08)
c.1515
Oil on wood,128x95cm
St Florian,Augustiner-Chorherrenstift
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Painting ID:: 21371
Susanna at her Bath and The Stoning of the Old Men (mk08)
1526
Oil on wood
74.8x61.2cm
Munich,Bayerische
Staatsgemaldesammlun-gen,
Alte Pinkothek
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Painting ID:: 21372
Alexander's Victory (mk08)
1529
Oil tempera on wood
158.4x120.3cm
Munich,Bayerisch Staatsgemaldesammlungen,
Alte Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 29931
The Martydom of St.Florian
mk67
Oil on panel
30 1/16x26 /16in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 29932
The Departure of St.Florian
mk67
Oil on panel
31 7/8x26 3/8in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Albrecht Altdorfer
German
1480-1538
Albrecht Altdorfer Galleries
He most often painted religious scenes, but is mainly famous as the first frequent painter of pure landscape, and also compositions dominated by their landscape. Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun. His Landscape with footbridge (National Gallery, London) of 1518-20 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour. His best religious scenes are intense, sometimes verging on the expressionistic, and often depict moments of intimacy between Christ and his mother, or others. His most famous religious artwork is the The Legend of St. Sebastian and the Passion of Christ that decorated the altar in the St. Florian monastery in Linz, Austria. He often distorts perspective to subtle effect. His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries. He also painted some portraits; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.
. Related Artists to Albrecht Altdorfer: | Robert Gabriel Gence | BLOOT, Pieter de | LONGHI, Pietro | David Cox | Franz Skarbina |
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