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Albrecht Dürer : The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse

Artist



Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF : 54146999 ISNI : 0000000120961368 ULAN : 500115493 LCCN : n79118011 NLA : 35051029 WorldCat

Title

German:

Die vier apokalyptischen Reiter

The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse

Series title

Apocalypse

Object type

woodcut print / print

Genre

religious art

Description

Albrecht Dürer's wood print engraving of C.E.1497 -1498, depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse mentioned in the Bible. In the picture, four horsemen are from right to left; the Epidemic holding a bow in his hand (in some interpretations Jesus' conquest of the world), War holding a sword in his hand, Famine holding scales in his hand, and Death, which is depicted as a decaying body. The print of 39 x 28 cm is in the Staatliche

Date

between 1497 and 1498

Medium

woodcut print on paper

Dimensions

height: 39.9 cm (15.7 in); width: 28.6 cm (11.2 in)

Collection

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

	Native name	Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
	Location	Karlsruhe
	Coordinates	49° 00′ 42.84″ N, 8° 24′ 00″ E
	Established	1759
	Website	www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de
	Authority file	: Q658725 VIAF : 139030426 ISNI : 000000040565103X ULAN : 500300796 LCCN : n79074432 NLA : 36080876 WorldCat

Current location

Kupferstichkabinett, not on view

Accession number

I 984

Place of creation

Nuremberg

References

Authority file

: Q5980742
GND : 1069791962

Source/Photographer

1. Web Gallery of Art
2. Unknown source

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The author died in 1528, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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