Landscape with A Double Spruce

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape with A Double Spruce

Albrecht Altdorfer

Date
1520/22
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Albrecht Altdorfer was the first German artist to execute pure landscapes. A painter and architectural and metal-work designer in Regensburg, he is most famous for establishing the Danube School of artists devoted to a romantic interest in the natural world, to which Augustin Hirschvogel also belonged.

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Object type
AAT300041273

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