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ALBRECHT DURER..
QUATERCENTENARY OF HIS DEATH.
A MASTER OF LINE.
who
he
Wo
and elsewhere reveal the extent to stock-breedors. His father, how- which he influenced both the aver, was a goldsmith (how many thoughts and the art of Italy.
of the parents of Renaissance Everybody in the South seems to painters were craftemen!), have boon ዕፀ amazed at his camne to Nuremberg in 1455. dexterity with pencil and brush as Albrecht, or Albert, as we should delighted with his personality as have called him, was the third of an acquaintance. He was the eighteen children, He was born possessor of singular physical on May 21, 1471. Ha learned in R. R. Tatlock writes in the Lon-beauty, of a ready tongue, and an his early years the secrets of the don "Daily Tolegraph":— Durer. engaging manner. He was self-goldsmith's art, but he insisted on died on April G 1528, so confident but not self-assertive, being a painter and was bound that to-morrow (April 6) will good-humoured but not ether in 1486 to the Nuremberg painter, be the 400th anniversary offlippant or coarse, serious-minded Michel Wolgemut. the event. It is probably safe to but never gloomy, pious but never.
A Discredited Tradition, say that at no previous time has his fanatical, learned but not a bore. art been more fully appreciated, or But above all he was one of those, disappears from view, but After serving three years his individual pictures, on the rare nono too numerous in those days know from his own writings that occasions when they come on the of spiritual twilight, who could market, more eagerly sought for,, without exaggeration be described four years; until my father re- he was "gent away, and absent We still connect the name of Durer as a happy man. With all these quired me back....so I returned in white, and with drawings and besides, can it be wondered at that diary continues, in a quaint and principally with work in black and accomplishments and with his arte1404, after Whitsuntide.". The
woodcuts in particular.
he was a favourite north and south characteristic style, "And when I But a Just estimate of his place in art and wherever he went? history can only be arrived at by doubtedly experienced as a man is daughter Agnes, and he gave me The joy in life that Durer un-with my father, and gave me his reached home, Hans Frey treated Įtaking into consideration every- thing he achieved in whatever it is a compla a mistake to assume, the marriage was celebrated on the not very obvious in his work. But with her two hundred florins, and as is so often assumed, that what Monday before St. Margaret's Day flected in his art, Innumerable is a tradition that the marriage we see and know of a man is re- (July 7), in the year 1494 There cases give the lie.to that assump-was unhappy, but this is now more to have been the case with Durer, tion, and suggest that, as I believe or less discredited.
'Durer's Arst Venetian visit, as most artists really react in their work from the thoughts and has been said, was apparently in For the rest he emotions of everyday life. Durer's 1494 and 1495.
time after his work is full of dark thoughts, lived for some moroae images, and the odour of marriage with his father, after death pervades it, and there is whose death in 1602 he attended to something in the contorted lines the interests of his mother, and of many of his prints that seems taught his young brother Hans to symbolise the uneasy conscience how to paint.
medium..
No small part of his importance to us who have to look back across 400 years to discern his figure is due to the fact that as an artist not only was he a link between one epoch and another, but he was one of the rare creative artists who in person connected the North and the South.
The two epochs are represented, on the one hand, by the whole vast activity of the Gothic artists and craftsmen, and, on the other, by the century, following his death, in which art seemed suddenly, to break all prescribed bounds so far as richness of subject matter and variety of technical method are
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and the forbidding theories of The rest of Durer's life was thone Dark Ages that still echoed occupied mainly with drawing, in the streets of old Nuremberg print-making, painting, talking,
writing, and travelling.
when Darer was a boy.
Greatness of his Genius. But great work in art can
be
In the autumn of 1505 he went to Venice, where he stayed till 1507. Then, in Nuremberg again, comes the
the
Little
concerned.
At the same time artists as such grew much self-conscious than formerly. They no longer worked in solid groups, created in any mood familiar to "Adam and Eve" and other great but came out, as it were, into the the ordinary human being, and it works, and a few years later "The open, cach, man intent on express-would be bad criticism to appraise Trinity." In 1520-21 we find him ing his own personality and often the art of a Durer in accordance setting out for the Netherlands inscribing the work of his hands with the" impression the subject with his wife, and we have a matter makes upon us. Looking detailed journal from his own pen This change did, of course, come at his art as a whole and for its describing that tour, which still about gradually, and as the result own anke, there can be no manner makes excellent reading. of the activities of many masters, of doubt that he was
a great else is known of him, except that he not only painting, but of genius. What he set out to deplet continued literature and the arts in general; he depicted better than almost any having painted
to work until, after] and it was immensely hastened by of his contemporaries, far better "Four Apostles" (now in Munich).
wonderfull a profound change of public spirit than any of his compatriots. connected more ar less with the
In colour he was not great (no centuries ago.
he died in his native city four adoption of a fresh view of the single German artist was), but in moral and religious life.. But if line he was marvellouis. I do not we consider pictorial art alone and wish to give a catalogue of his look among the names of the great works, which may be found in any Unable Seaman: "The surgeon artists of the period for one re- of the books on Durer, but to make said to me, I'm sorry, but there's presenting the new age without this one point clear. I would a sponge missing, and I believe it's being out of sympathy with the draw attention to a single passage inside. you.' 'What's the odds, I old, we almost inevitably think of of drawing-the dress of the said. 'Let it be,' and there it fe to the name of Durer.
female model in the celebrated this day." Link Between North and South.' print entitled "Melancolia."
His significance
Gullible Old Gent: "Bless as a link be It only remains to sketch very heart!". tween north and south is shortly the career of the artist, Unable Seaman: "I don't Venice, probably in the winter of Albrecht Durer was of Hungarian -any particular pain from it, but I 1494-96. His letters from Venice descent, his ancestors having been de get uncommonly thirsty."
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