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Albrecht Dürer: Hieronymus Holzschuher
Photograph by Flickr user "ho visto nina volare", Creative Commons licensed
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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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N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Albrecht Durer's House, Nuremberg, Germany
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
2 engravings online
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
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Durer
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
4 paintings online
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
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Many works on paper online
Albrecht Durer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
5 works by Albrecht Dürer online
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
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Albrecht Durer at the Prado Museum, Madrid
In-depth analysis of Dürer's Self-Portrait, 1498
Albrecht Durer at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Adam, 1507
Prado Museum, Madrid
Portrait of an Unidentified Man, 1521
Prado Museum, Madrid
Eve, 1507
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
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Many prints online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
A total of 11 engravings online
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
5 of the prints on the page are by Durer
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)
7 prints by the artist
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Carlos Museum at Emory University, Georgia
Pilate Washing His Hands from The Engraved Passion
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!
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
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Sea Monster, engraving, ca.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
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW!
2 works online
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
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
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Move the date slider back to about 1500 to see 3 works by Dürer
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
9 prints online
Hammer Museum, California NEW!
St. Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1511
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Melencolia I, engraving, 1514
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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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
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
St. Philip, 1523/26
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
5 engravings
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
2 works online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Etude de draperie
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
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW!
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Elsbeth Tucher, 1499
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Heiliger Martin, ca.1493
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
St. Jerome Penitent in the Landscape, engraving, 1496
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
3 works online
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England
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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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW!
The Small Horse (see middle row)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
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)
Die Heilige Familie mit der Heuschrecke, engraving, ca.1495
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Städtischen Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany (in German) NEW!
Die vier Hexen (The Four Witches), engraving, 1497
State Museums of Berlin
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 Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Dürer and his Legacy
The British Museum, London, UK
49 works by or related to Albrecht Dürer
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
Site for a 2007 exhibition, Dürer & Cranach: Art and Humanism in Renaissance Germany
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
Landscape with Cannon, 1518
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Coat of Arms of Death, engraving, 1503
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
4 works online
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Trabender Hengst
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK NEW!
Search results for "Albrecht Durer
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Coat of Arms with a Skull, engraving, 1503
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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