Collection: Albrecht Dürer

Our collection of engravings prints by the German painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer.

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter and printmaker from Nuremberg. His works, such as The Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Saint Jerome in his Study, and Melencolia I, are still famous today. His watercolors make him one of the first European landscape artists, and his woodcuts revolutionized the medium. Dürer's knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists allowed him to introduce classical motifs into Northern art. This, along with his theoretical treatise on mathematics, perspective, and ideal proportions, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest Renaissance artist in Northern Europe ever since.