Albrecht Altdorfer worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Albrecht Altdorfer as German painter (1480–1538).
Albrecht Altdorfer was born at Regensburg in 1480. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, architect and illuminator.
His recorded movement is german renaissance.
Among his best-known works are The Battle of Alexander at Issus, Susanna and the Elders and Nativity of the Virgin. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Albrecht Altdorfer died in 1538, aged 58. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Battle of Alexander at Issus
- Notable work: Susanna and the Elders
- Notable work: Nativity of the Virgin
- Notable work: Legend of Saint Florian
- Movement: German Renaissance
