Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance painter and printmaker. He began his career in the Imperial Free City of Nuremberg with his father, a Hungarian goldsmith who had immigrated to Germany in 1455. Although the inexhaustible richness of his imagination is manifest in a variety of forms, his reputation rests chiefly on his activities as a printmaker as can be seen in his landmark engraving "Adam and Eve", 1504. His woodcuts and engravings made him famous across Europe and he is still considered to be the greatest printmaker of all time. As a testament to the magnitude of these works, permanent collections of Dürer's works are housed at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, the British Museum, London, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the Louvre, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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