Dürer

[door-er, dyoor-, dy-ruhr]

noun

1. Albrecht 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.

Dürer

/ ˈdyːrər /

noun

1. Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). 1471–1528, German painter and engraver, regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance and noted particularly as a draughtsman and for his copper engravings and woodcuts

Example Sentences

A 500-year-old engraving by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, which is said to have been found at a tip, has sold at auction for £26,500.

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Dürer, born in 1471, was a major painter and printmaker who introduced Renaissance art to Germany and northern Europe.

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A two-day event, the auction was a high point of the Swiss social season, at which Mr. Kornfeld — Ebi to almost everyone who knew him — typically sold millions of dollars of works by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and other old masters, along with those by more recent artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.

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Among the show’s many examples of Netherlandish portraiture, a clever narrative unfolds through a double-sided work by Hans Süss von Kulmbach, a protégé of Albrecht Dürer.

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In works like this, Blake brings together the muscularity of Michelangelo’s drawing, the formal crispness of Raphael, Albrecht Dürer’s commitment to printmaking as a modern form and an almost medieval mysticism that predated Renaissance rationality.

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