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List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

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This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1480–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer
Monogram of Albrecht Altdorfer

Paintings

Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer.[2] Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.[3][4][5] The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdan, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper.[2][6][7][8][9] All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.[9][10]

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.[11]

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Etchings

Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.[12]

Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in Albertina, 1 in Veste Coburg, and 1 in the British Museum).[13] These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself (it was, in fact, his father's trade).[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

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Engravings

Drawings

See also


Notes

  1. Wood 1993, p. 9
  2. Wood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper"
  3. Baumstark 2002, p. 40
  4. "Danube Landscape near Regensberg". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  5. "Landschaft mit Fichte". Berlin State Museums. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  6. Wood 1993, pp. 9–12
  7. bildindex(de), search for "altdorfer rotterdam"
  8. Wood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522"
  9. "Mountain Range". Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  10. Dackerman 2002, p. 139
  11. Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2
  12. Dackerman 2002, p. 141
  13. Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
  14. "The large spruce". Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  15. "Large Fir". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  16. Dackerman 2002, pp. 139–141
  17. "Die große Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  18. "Die kleine Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  19. "Landschaft mit großer Burg". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  20. "Landschaft mit Doppelfichte". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.

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