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Altdorfer

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Altdorfer (German) [ˈaltdɔrfər]
n
(Biographies / Altdorfer, Albrecht (?1480-?1538) M, German, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, ARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver) Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480-?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters


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For example, Schama demonstrates convincingly how nationalism in Germany was inseparable from its extensive "wild" forest areas, from the sixteenth-century paintings of the landscape artist Albrecht Altdorfer to the twentieth-century mythology of the Nazis.
One of the main ways that they accomplish this task is by focusing on designs made by major name artists, such as Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Hans Baldung, and Albrecht Altdorfer.
WOOD is professor of art history at Yale University and the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1993), as well as numerous articles on Northern Renaissance art and the history of art history.
 
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