Albrecht Altdorfer
c.1480–1538 · Northern Renaissance · 14 works
Albrecht Altdorfer gave trees, plants, and terrain an expressive role in early sixteenth-century art. Based in Regensburg on the Danube, he worked as a painter, printmaker, and designer, alongside civic and architectural responsibilities. Landscape could surround a religious event or become a subject with no narrative figures at all. Small prints make this interest especially accessible: a cluster of trees or a tightly worked patch of branches can command the whole sheet. His work invites attention to the setting as an active part of the image, rather than simply its background.
14 works · 1507–1525
In Landscape with a Double Spruce, follow the trees from their trunks to their outermost branches. How do they organize the open spaces around them?
1507–1513 · 9 works
Walk these 9German and Netherlandish artists of the early 1500s. Lucas van Leyden of Leiden was celebrated across Europe for his engravings. Hans Baldung Grien of Strasbourg, probably a pupil of Dürer, made prints and drawings of striking intensity. Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg pioneered landscape as a subject. Hans Holbein the Younger went on to portray the Tudor court.
In the museum: Northern Renaissance room · 1 work
Head of a Young Man1507
Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptistc. 1517
Christ Before Caiaphas, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
Christ Before Pilate, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
The Agony in the Garden, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
The Betrayal, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
The Crowning with Thorns, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
The Expulsion from Paradise, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
The Flagellation, from The Fall and Redemption of Man1513
1515–1525 · 5 works
Walk these 5
Albrecht Dürer
The Virgin with the Dragonfly, c. 1495
Daniel Hopfer, I
Adam, by 1522
Diana Scultori
The Small Savior, 1577
