List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

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Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer
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Monogram of Albrecht Altdorfer

This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), 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.[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer.[2] Two of them, 30.5 × 22.2 cm one in Munich and 41.2 × 35.5 cm one in London, were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.[3][4][5] The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdan, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper.[2][6][7][8][9] All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.[9][10]

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.[11]

Painting Title Date Medium Size Location Notes
250px Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg[3]

Danube Landscape near Regensberg[4]

 shortly after 1520[3]


c. 1522 – c. 1525[4]

 oil[4] on parchment on beechwood[3] 30.5 × 22.2 cm[3] Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany[3] Inventory number: WAF30.[3]

The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle(de) near Regensburg.[3] Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale.
Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Danube Landscape, cut into a tree).jpg
250px Landscape with a Footbridge[5] c. 1518 – c. 1520[5] oil on vellum on wood[5] 41.2 × 35.5 cm[5] National Gallery, London[5] Inventory number: NG6320.[5]

Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Footbridge Landscape, in the sky).jpg
250px Landscape with a Spruce[6]

Landscape with Woodcutter[7]

 c. 1522[6][7] pen, watercolour and gouache on paper[7] 20.1 × 13.6 cm[6] Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany[6] Inventory number: KdZ 11651.[6]

Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Woodcutter Landscape, cut into a tree).jpg
250px Mountain landscape at sunset[8] c. 1522[8] pen, watercolour and gouache[8] on paper[2] 20.0 × 13.2 cm[8] Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany[8] Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812.[8]

Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Sunset Landscape, in the sky).jpg
250px Landscape with a Church[9] 1522[9] painting on paper[2] 20.4 × 13.8 cm[9] Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands[9] Dated[9][10] and signed with a monogram,[9] cut into the tree on the left:

File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram and date (Rotterdam Landscape, cut into a tree).jpg
250px Mountain Range[11] c. 1530[11] oil on panel[11] 53.1 × 45.1 cm[11] Tokyo Fuji Art Museum[11] Attributed to Altdorfer.[11]

Etchings

Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.[12]

Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in Albertina, 1 in Veste Coburg, and 1 in the British Museum).[13] 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).[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

Etching Hand-coloured Title Date Size Notes
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 The Large Spruce[16]

Large Fir[17]
Landscape with a Large Pine[18]

 c. 1517 – c. 1520[16][19]

c. 1520 – c. 1523[18]

 23.6 × 17.8 cm[16] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impressions in:

Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:[16]
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Big Spruce) Albertina.jpg
250px 250px The Small Spruce[20][21] c. 1517 – c. 1520[21] 15.9 × 11.7 cm[21] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1778)[21]

Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree:[20]
File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Small Spruce) Albertina.jpg
250px 250px Landscape with a Big Castle[22][23] c. 1517 – c. 1519[23]

c. 1506 – c. 1522[22]

 10.8 × 14.9 cm[22] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1780)[23]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[22]
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250px 250px Landscape with a Double Spruce[24][25][26]

Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground[27]

 c. 1517 – c. 1520[24]

c. 1521 – c. 1522[25][27] c. 1506 – c. 1522[26]

 11.0 × 16.2 cm[24] Impressions in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1782)[24]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[25][27][26]
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250px 250px Landscape with a City by the Lake Signed with a monogram in the sky:

File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (City by the Lake) Albertina.jpg
250px 250px Landscape with a Spruce and Two Willows Signed with a monogram in the sky:

File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Spruce and Two Willows) Albertina.jpg
250px 250px Landscape with Two Spruces and a Castle Signed with a monogram in a cloud:

File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Two Spruces and a Castle) Albertina.jpg
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 Landscape with a Shaded Cliff Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

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250px Landscape with a Water Mill Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

File:Albrecht Altdorfer monogram (Landscape with a Watermill) NGA Washington.jpg

Engravings

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Drawings

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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Wood 1993, p. 9
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Wood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Baumstark 2002, p. 40
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Wood 1993, pp. 9–12
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 bildindex(de), search for "altdorfer rotterdam"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Wood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Dackerman 2002, p. 139
  13. ↑ Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2
  14. ↑ Dackerman 2002, p. 141
  15. ↑ Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
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  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Dackerman 2002, pp. 139–141
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References

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