Albrecht Altdorfer Works Online
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Original works by Albrecht Altdorfer available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Albrecht Altdorfer at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Madonna with the Blessing Child, 1515
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia St Jerome in the Cave, 1513-15 Madonna and Child Giving a Benedection to Nature, ca.1515
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Christ Carrying the Cross, 1510
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Albrecht Altdorfer at the Louvre Museum, Paris Departure for the Sabbath, pen and ink drawing, 1506
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Albrecht Altdorfer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
National Gallery, London, UK Christ taking Leave of his Mother Landscape with a Footbridge
Albrecht Altdorfer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 5 works by Albrecht Altdorfer
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany The Adoration of the Magi
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Landscape with Large Pine is by Altdorfer. If you click on the "compare" link, you can zoom in on the print.
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois 6 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Frick Collection, New York City Mercenary Foot Soldier, 1512
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland Lovers seated in a wood, 1511
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Albrecht Altdorfer in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German) 
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Satyr attacking a nymph, himself being attacked
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany 5 works online
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Albrecht Altdorfer at the The British Museum, London, UK
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish) 
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 20
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Albrecht Altdorfer in the Art Renewal Center
Albrecht Altdorfer in the Artchive 
CGFA 
Google Art Project NEW! Christ taking Leave of his Mother (National Gallery, London)
Google Art Project NEW! Landscape with a Footbridge (National Gallery, London)
The Athenaeum  3 works online by Altdorfer
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany 
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Albrecht Altdorfer  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape
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