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Albrecht Altdorfer

Landscape with A Double Spruce

1520/22
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
11 × 16 cm (4.3 × 6.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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