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 | | Albrecht Dürer is the greatest exponent of Northern European Renaissance art. While an important painter, in his own day Dürer was renowned foremost for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied Dürer's innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes, to maps and exotic animals.
Technically, Dürer's prints are exemplary for their detail and precision. The son of a goldsmith, Dürer was trained as a metalworker at a young age. He applied the same meticulous, exacting methods required in this delicate work to his woodcuts and engravings, notably the Four Horsemen of his Apocalypse series (1498), and his Knight, Death and Devil (1513).
Dürer's training also involved travel and study abroad. He went to Italy in 1494, and returned again in 1505-6. Contact with Italian painters resonated deeply in his art. Influenced by Venetian artists, who were renowned for the richness of their palette, Dürer placed greater importance on colour in his paintings. His Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506), removed any doubt that, as well as a master of prints, he was an accomplished painter.
Dürer was also a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci. He was intrigued by the Italian master's studies of the human figure, and after 1506 applied and adapted Leonardo's proportions to his own figures, as is evident in his drawings. Later in his life, in the 1520's, he illustrated and wrote theoretical treatises instructing artists in perspective and proportion.
Dürer was a humanist and a creator. His awareness of his own role as an artist is apparent in his frontal, Christ-like Self Portrait, 1500, just one of many self portraits that he painted in his career. More than simply producing works for his own time, Dürer saw his fame and his contribution as enduring, and as part of history.
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Original works by Albrecht Dürer available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Albrecht Durer's House, Nuremberg, Germany
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Adam and Eve
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
The Sea Monster, engraving, ca.1498
Albrecht Durer at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Large collection of engravings
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
A river landscape, drawing, 1515-20
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Berlin
Folio with The Rape of Europa, ca.1494/95
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
9 works by Dürer
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Walk, engraving, ca.1496-98
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Durer
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Virgin and Child with a Pear, 1512
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Albrecht Durer at the Louvre Museum, Paris
View of the Arco Valley, pen and ink drawing, ca.1495
Albrecht Durer at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Self-Portrait or Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle, 1493
Albrecht Durer at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of Erasmus, black chalk drawing, 1520
Albrecht Durer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
5 works by Albrecht Dürer online
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
A variety of artworks, with biographical info
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Albrecht Durer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Three paintings and a variety of other works
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
5 engravings
Albrecht Durer at the National Gallery, London, UK
The Virgin and Child
Saint Jerome
The Painter's Father
Albrecht Durer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Fall, engraving, 1504
Portrait of Erasmus, engraving, 1526
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
Dozens of prints online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Melancholy / Melancholia I
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Apocalypse. Vision of the seven candelabras
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Nürnberg and Venetian woman
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
Great reproductions of several series of Dürer etchings
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Adam and Eve
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), engraving
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Samson Killing the Lion, woodcut
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Saint Jerome in His Study, engraving
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
6 prints online
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Mini-site devoted to Dürer's great engraving Melencolia
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia NEW!
Many prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 prints online
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Head of an Old Man, 1521
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide NEW!
A total of 11 engravings online
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
5 engravings
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Saint Jerome in His Study, 1514
Baltimore Museum of Art
5 of the prints on the page are by Durer
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
St. Jerome in His Cell
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
2 works online
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, ca.1497-98
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
10 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
7 prints by the artist
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Carlos Museum at Emory University, Georgia
The Adoration of the Magi, woodcut, 1511
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Nemesis, 1501/02
Chester Beatty Library and Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
2 engravings by the artist (#7 and #8)
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Adam and Eve
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Sketches of Animals and Landscapes, pen and ink, 1521
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
St. Jerome in his Study, engraving, 1514
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist
Crocker Art Museum, California
Nude Woman with Staff, 1498
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
St. Peter and St. John Healing the Cripple, 1513
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Knight, Death and Devil, engraving, 1513
Davistown Museum, Liberty, Maine
Unidentified print
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Madonna on a Grassy Bench, 1503
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont
St. Michael Fighting The Dragon, 1498
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italy
Madonna con il Bambino
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Head of an Angel
Study with Three Hands
Frick Collection, New York City
4 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Melencolia I, engraving, 1514
Kunsthaus Zurich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the TITLE to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Marian Library at the University of Dayton, Ohio
5 engravings depicting the life of the Virgin Mary
McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec NEW!
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
St. Philip, 1523/26
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Le grand cheval, 1505
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
La Mélancolie, 1514
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
Etude de draperie
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
St. Eustachius
The Men's Bath
National Gallery of Prague
The Feast of the Rose Garlands
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Elsbeth Tucher, 1499
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Heiliger Martin, ca.1493
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
St. Jerome Penitent in the Landscape, engraving, 1496
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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Palazzo Rosso Gallery, Genoa, Italy
Ritratto di giovane
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Lamentation, ca.1498-99
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Coat of Arms with a Skull
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Adam and Eve, pen and ink, 1504
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Adam and Eve, engraving (second state), 1504
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1512
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Melencolia I, 1514
Prints in the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
The Cannon, etching, 1518
The Six Warriors, engraving, ca.1495-96
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Knight Death and the Devil, engraving
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
3 prints online
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany (in German) NEW!
State Graphic Art Collection, Nuremberg, Germany
5 prints
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
Hieronymus Holzschuher
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large Adam and Eve
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large Madonna della pera (Madonna of the Pear)
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
The Prodigal Son Amid the Swine, engraving, 1496
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
Prodigal Son Amid the Swine, engraving, 1496
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
Online tour: Dürer and his Legacy
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
49 works by or related to Albrecht Dürer
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Jesus Among the Doctors, 1506
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Coat of Arms of Death, engraving, 1503
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
4 works online
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Trabender Hengst
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Melencolia I
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Coat of Arms with a Skull, engraving, 1503
Professional Tools:
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
22 high-quality reproductions
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Madonna of the Carnation, 1516
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Virgin among a Multitute of Animals, 1503
Artonline
CGFA
60-odd great reproductions of Dürer's work
Insecula
Liam's Pictures from Old Books 
scans of 3 engravings
The Athenaeum
58 works online by Durer
Web Gallery of Art
Hungary-based image archive
WebMuseum
Another image archive. Many, if not all, of these scans can be found elsewhere.
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Separate sections on Durer's paintings, drawings, watercolors and engravings
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Farbdia Archiv (Color Slide Archive) (in German)
Thousands of photographs of fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches and other buildings in and around Germany.
Click "Galerie" for a normal overview; click "digilib" to zoom in.
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Self-Portrait at the Age of 26
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Thirteen engravings
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Albrecht Durer at Museo del Prado (7 works online)
Culture and History of Venice
Queen Caterina Cornaro, chalk and watercolor, 1494-95
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Book mark for Willibald Pirckheimer, drawing, 1513
Online Archive of California
The Babylonian Whore, from The Apocalypse series
Online Archive of California
Melencolia I
Online Archive of California
The Great Fortune or Nemesis
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Albrecht Durer
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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
Artnet Magazine
Wing of a Blue Roller, 1512
Study of an Old Man's Head, 1521
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
The Painter's Father, 1497
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