Landscape with A Double Spruce
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1520/22 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Albrecht Altdorfer was the first German artist to execute pure landscapes. A painter and architectural and metal-work designer in Regensburg, he is most famous for establishing the Danube School of artists devoted to a romantic interest in the natural world, to which Augustin Hirschvogel also belonged.
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Details
- Maker
- Albrecht Altdorfer, German, c.1480-1538
- Date
- 1520/22
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 11 × 16 cm (4 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 11.1 × 16.1 cm (4 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
