Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German painter and printmaker from Nuremberg. His works, such asThe Apocalypsewoodcuts,Knight, Death, and the Devil,Saint Jerome in his Study, andMelencolia 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 thegreatest Renaissance artist in Northern Europe ever since.

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The old masters

We've chosen to present several artists who are close to our hearts. Gustave Doré, whose evocative power captivated his contemporaries and continues to work its magic years later. Albrecht Dürer, the great German master, for his precise technique and the spirit that inhabits every detail of his engravings.

Gustave Doré : 

Gustave Doré  was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image. Enjoy our collection of engravings, etchings and lithographs by the french artist Gustave Doré. 

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