Artist: Albrecht Durer, Title: Crucifixion, Description: Engraving, 1508. HIGH CROWN WATERMARK, (Meder 20). LUGT 1063 VERSO. B.24, M.23Albrecht Durer was regarded as the greatest German artists creating altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, engravings, and woodcuts.German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer was born May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg. In 1494 he traveled to Italy, where he remained until 1495. The trip had a strong effect on Durer; echoes of Italian art are apparent in most of his drawings, paintings, and graphics of the following decade. Italian influences were slower to take hold in his graphics than in his drawings and paintings. He died in 1528.Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg, Germany on May 21, 1471, the second of eighteen children in the family of a master goldsmith of some repute. Fifteen of the children of this family died at an early age and Durer's mother was often sickly, especially in the last years of her life. Although his father was not pleased with his artistic ambitions, at the age of fifteen, Durer was apprenticed to a painter..Durer was probably the greatest artist in German history. By adopting the new forms of the Italian quattrocento and connecting them to the already robust tradition of the German print, he almost single-handedly provoked the Northern Renaissance. For all-around inquisitiveness, he was surpassed only by his older contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Durer was interested in everything, from the nap of rabbit's fur to the theory of human proportion. His graphic work was a sustained paean to the diversity of the world. His curiosity was insatiable, and it drove him to constant journeying; Durer was the first cultural tourist. He seems to have been the first great artist to act on the idea that response to different cultures is part of the creative process itself. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito bit him when he ventured into the salt marches of Zeeland to draw yet another marvel, a dead whale.Durer started traveling in 1490; he was not quite nineteen. He had spent four years apprenticed to a master painter and engraver, Michael Wolgemut; he now set off to Colmar, to work under Martin Schongauer. But he took two years reaching Colmar, and when he did, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice and were capped by a year-long sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself.

Excellent: The provenance for the Albrecht Durer etching is as follows: 1975 - 1990 Private collector, NYC 1990 - 1995 Centaur Sculpture Galleries, Las Vegas, NV 1995 - 2019 Private collector, Youngstown, OH 2019 - present Art Avenue Galleries, Sarasota, FL 2019 - present Exhibited at Art Avenue Galleries,Sarasota,FL

5.25 x 3.75 x 2 in

2 lb