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Albrecht Dürer , sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer , was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication 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 is commemorated by both the Lutheran and Episcopal Churches.



Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts series are more Gothic than the rest of his work. His well-known engravings include the three Meisterstiche Knight, Death and the Devil , Saint Jerome in his Study and Melencolia I . His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective, and ideal proportions.



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✵ 21. May 1471 – 6. April 1528
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Famous Albrecht Dürer Quotes

“There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.”

Albrecht Dürer

As quoted in Mathematics, Education and Philosophy: An International Perspective (1994) by Paul Ernest
This has also been quoted or misquoted as "There lives no man upon the earth who can give a final judgement upon what the most beautiful shape of man might be; God only knows that".

“Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.”

Albrecht Dürer

The Art of Measurement (1525).

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.”

Albrecht Dürer

The Art of Measurement (1525).

“Whoever … proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.”

Albrecht Dürer

Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528).

“span id=But_I_shall>But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error. At this I shall rejoice that I was yet a means whereby this truth has come to light.”

Albrecht Dürer

The opening quotation of Introduction, Conjectures and refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Popper (1963).

“The new art must be based upon science — in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.”

Albrecht Dürer

As quoted in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970 - 1990) edited by M Steck.

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