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Albrecht Dürer

1471 - 1528

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Albrecht Dürer ( DURE-ər, German: [ˈalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I. Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albrecht Dürer has received more than 4,327,020 page views. His biography is available in 156 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 152 in 2019). Albrecht Dürer is the 8th most popular painter (up from 11th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Germany (up from 18th in 2019) and the most popular German Painter.

Albrecht Dürer is most famous for his woodcuts and engravings. He was a German painter, printmaker, and designer.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Albrecht Dürer ranks 8 out of 2,023. Before him are Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Salvador Dalí, and Claude Monet. After him are Edvard Munch, Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, and Johannes Vermeer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1471, Albrecht Dürer ranks 1. After him are Frederick I of Denmark, George, Duke of Saxony, and Elisabetta Gonzaga. Among people deceased in 1528, Albrecht Dürer ranks 1. After him are Matthias Grünewald, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Georg von Frundsberg, Palma Vecchio, Pánfilo de Narváez, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, Balthasar Hubmaier, Clarice de' Medici, Rana Sanga, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, and Urs Graf.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Dürer ranks 14 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Henry Kissinger (1923), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Otto von Bismarck (1815), and Johannes Kepler (1571). After him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Max Weber (1864), and George Frideric Handel (1685).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Albrecht Dürer ranks 1. After him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Hans Memling (1435), Franz Marc (1880), Hans von Aachen (1552), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), and Emil Nolde (1867).

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