!!!Altdorfer, Albrecht

b. Regensburg (Germany), around 1480, 
d. Regensburg (Germany), Feb. 12, 1538, painter and graphic 
artist, copperplate engraver, architect. One of the outstanding 
artists of his time, most important representative of the  Danube 
School . Several of his 55 panel paintings are exhibited in the 
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. His masterpiece, created between 
1509 and 1518, is the Sebastian Altar at the Monastery of St. Florian 
decorated with panels of the Passion in dramatic-mannerist style. His 
124 drawings include sketches depicting the triumphal procession of 
Maximilian I of Habsburg and 24 illuminations for 
Maximilian´s prayer book. In 1535 he was appointed envoy of 
Regensburg to King Ferdinand I.

!Literature
C. S. Wood, A. A. and the Origin of Landscape, 1993.



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