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Albrecht Dürer - Self Portrait at Age 22

About Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and theorist born in Nuremberg. His artwork has endured through the ages and he remains famous thought the world today. Many of his works are recognizable, even to casual viewers who may not know his name and heritage. Works like the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514) have been widely studied and displayed through modern times.

Dürer's watercolors are unique and help to establish hime as one of the foremost European landscape artists. However, his revolutionary woodcut prints are possibly his greatest artistic and technical achievement. These prints prints established his reputation throughout the Renaissance world when he was still in his twenties. Albrecht Dürer is regarded as the greatest artist of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.

Dürer & Philately

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Chronology of Dürer's Life

On May 21, 1471, Albrecht Dürer is born to the goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder (c. 1427-1502) and Barbara Holper (c. 1451-1514). Albrecht is the third of eighteen children that the couple will have.

Dürer creates his first known and surviving work – a self-portrait at age 13.

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