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Albrecht Dürer



Born: May 21 1471 at Nuremburg, Holy Roman Empire Died: April 6 1528 at Nuremburg, Holy Roman Empire


 * 1) He is a German Painter, Printmaker, Engraver, Mathematician, and Theorist.
 * 2) He printed and his reputation across Europe When he was in his twenties.
 * 3) He was conventionally regarded as the Greatest Artist from Northern Renaissance ever since.
 * 4) All of his Pieces or body of work includes Altarpieces, Religious works, Self-portraits, and Copper engravings.
 * 5) His well known works are Knight, Death, and the Devil, Saint Jerome in His Study, and Melencolia 1.

Albrecht's dad wanted him to be a golds smith, but he had a talent of drawing so he became an apprentice at the age of fifteen. He became famous in his mid twenties. Albrecht went to Italy to study art and he made a lot of watercolor sketches when he traveled over the Alps. One of his most famous engravings is Knight, Death, and the Devil which was engraved in 1513. He worked on geometry he wrote a book called the Four Books on Measurment. That is the life of Albrecht Durer