Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.

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1480 - Regensburg - February 12 - 1538 - Painter - Danubian School - Germany - Albrecht Dürer

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He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.

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His "Battle of Arbela" adorns the Münich Picture Gallery.

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See also: Early Renaissance painting

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