This is a list of surviving pure

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the p ...

Albrecht Altdorfer Albrecht Altdorfer (12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube S ...

(–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

Paintings

Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.Wood 1993, p. 9 Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood. The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdan, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper. All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.

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owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.

Etchings

Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject. Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in

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, 1 in

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). These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself (it was, in fact, his father's trade). An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the

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.Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2 All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

Engravings

Drawings

Notes

References

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* {{Lists of paintings Albrecht Altdorfer Altdorfer Collections of the Albertina, Vienna