Albrecht Durer: A collection of 629 sketches & etchings

Albrecht Durer: A collection of 629 sketches & etchings Description: “Albrecht Durer was born on May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg, Germany, to Albrecht Dürer the Elder and Barbara Holper. He was the second of eighteen children, many of whom passed away in childhood. When Dürer was thirteen, he became an apprentice to his father, a goldsmith. Two years later, he left the apprenticeship to become a painter, much to the displeasure of his father, who did not live to see him become famous in Germany and throughout Europe. Upon leaving his father’s tutelage, Dürer began a three-year apprenticeship under the painter and printmaker Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) also in Nuremberg, an important center for book publishing. Dürer knew this budding industry firsthand through his godfather Anton Koberger (1440–1513), who printed and published the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). In his apprenticeship under Wolgemut, Dürer learned the art of woodcut, which at the time was used primarily