Hang Around the World: Painting #028

Albrecht Dürer

(1471-1528, German)

Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63

The Artist's Mother (Dürer's mother)

- Albrecht Dürer

- Charcoal drawing, 1514

- Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin)

It is a tender but unflinching study of his mother, Barbara Holper (c. 1451–1514), completed while she was gravely ill, two months before she died. Dürer was close to his mother and after her death wrote that she had "died hard" and that "I felt so grieved for her that I cannot express it". She gave birth to 18 children, of which only 3 lived.

Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70

The Painter's Father
- Albrecht Dürer
- oil on lime (51 x 40 cm) 1497
- National Gallery (London)

Along with the 1490 "Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary", it is the second of two portraits of the artist's Hungarian father Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427–1502).

Dürer's Self-Portraits

Self-Portrait at 13

- Dürer

- oil on panel (67 x 49 cm) 1484

- Alte Pinakothek (Munich)

Drawing from his own image in a mirror.

Self-Portrait at 22

- Dürer

- oil, originally on vellum (57 x 45 cm) 1493

- Louvre (Paris)

Said to be the first ever self-portrait in oil.

The plant in his right hand represents male integrity.

Self-Portrait at 26

- Durer

- oil on panel (52 x 41 cm) 1498

- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Self-Portrait at 28

- Dürer

- oil on panel (67 x 49 cm) 1500

- Alte Pinakothek (Munich)

(L) Self-Portraits of Albrecht Dürer

(R) Albrecht Dürer the artist

Monument of Albrecht Dürer
- designed by Christian Rauch
- cast by Jacob Burgschmiet
- 1828-1840
- Albrecht-Durer-Platz (Nuremberg)

The first German statue for artist.

Source: Wikipedia

Emperor Maximilian I
- Dürer
- oil on lime panel (74 x 61.5 cm) 1519
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Portrait of Nuremberger Painter Michael Wolgemut
- Albrecht Durer
- oil on panel () 1516
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg)

Young Dürer learnt engraving whilst working in his workshop for three years.

The fourth woodcut of the Apocalypse series
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1498)
- Albrecht Durer

They were about to destroy the world.

St Jerome
- Albrecht Dürer
- woodcut (19 x 13 cm) 1492
- Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung (Basel)

Saint Jerome in His Study
- Albrecht Dürer
- copper engraving (24 × 19 cm) 1514
- Kupferstichkabinett (Dresden)

Knight, Death, and the Devil
(part of Meisterstiche)
- Albrecht Dürer
- copper engraving print (25 × 10 cm) 1513
- National Gallery of Art (Washington DC)