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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:: 30486
Victory of Alexander over Darius,King of the Persians
mk68
Oil on wood
Munich
Alte Pinakothek
1529
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Painting ID:: 33519
The Agony in the Garden
mk86
c.1515
Oil on wood
128x95cm
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Painting ID:: 33520
Susanna at her Bath and The Stoning of the Old Men
mk86
1526
Oil on wood
74.8x61.2cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlun-gen,Alte Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 33521
Alexander's Vicory
mk86
1529
Oil tempera on wood158.4x120.3cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 34376
Die Alexamderschlacht
mk92
1529
158x120.5cm
Munchen,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung
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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: | Princess Kaiulani | James Pryde and William Nicholson | Frank Benson | Andrea Appiani | Edward Robert Smythe |
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