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Albrecht Altdorfer
German
1480-1538
Albrecht Altdorfer Galleries
He most often painted religious scenes, but is mainly famous as the first frequent painter of pure landscape, and also compositions dominated by their landscape. Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun. His Landscape with footbridge (National Gallery, London) of 1518-20 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour. His best religious scenes are intense, sometimes verging on the expressionistic, and often depict moments of intimacy between Christ and his mother, or others. His most famous religious artwork is the The Legend of St. Sebastian and the Passion of Christ that decorated the altar in the St. Florian monastery in Linz, Austria. He often distorts perspective to subtle effect. His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries. He also painted some portraits; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.
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Painting ID:: 76402
Sebastiansaltar des Augustiner-Chorherrenstifts
c. 1509 - 1516
Oil on wood
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Painting ID:: 76443
Landschaft mit einem Steg
English: c. 1516
Medium Deutsch: Öl auf Pergament/Holz
Dimensions 42 ?? 35,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 76574
Mountain Range
1530(1530)
Oil on wood
53.1 ?? 45.1 cm
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Painting ID:: 76627
Communion of the Apostles
Date between 1516(1516) and 1518(1518)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Width: 32.5 cm (12.8 in). Height: 42 cm (16.5 in).
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Painting ID:: 76657
Mary with the Child
between 1520(1520) and 1525(1525)
wood
35.5 cm (14 in). Height: 49.4 cm (19.4 in).
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Albrecht Altdorfer
German
1480-1538
Albrecht Altdorfer Galleries
He most often painted religious scenes, but is mainly famous as the first frequent painter of pure landscape, and also compositions dominated by their landscape. Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun. His Landscape with footbridge (National Gallery, London) of 1518-20 is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. He also made many fine finished drawings, mostly landscapes, in pen and watercolour. His best religious scenes are intense, sometimes verging on the expressionistic, and often depict moments of intimacy between Christ and his mother, or others. His most famous religious artwork is the The Legend of St. Sebastian and the Passion of Christ that decorated the altar in the St. Florian monastery in Linz, Austria. He often distorts perspective to subtle effect. His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries. He also painted some portraits; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.
. Related Artists to Albrecht Altdorfer: | The Brunswick Monogrammist | Vincenzo Irolli | Edgard Farasijn | Lucia Anguissola | BRIL, Paul |
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