A number of bold landscape watercolours dealing with subjects from the Alps of the southern Tirol were made on this journey and are among Dürer’s most beautiful creations. In the autumn of 1494 Dürer seems to have undertaken his first journey to Italy, where he remained until the spring of 1495. First journey to ItalyĪt the end of May 1494, Dürer returned to Nürnberg, where he soon married Agnes Frey, the daughter of a merchant. An early masterpiece from this period is a self-portrait with a thistle painted on parchment in 1493. During 1493 or 1494 Dürer was in Strasbourg for a short time, returning again to Basel to design several book illustrations. In 1490 Dürer completed his earliest known painting, a portrait of his father that heralds the familiar characteristic style of the mature master.ĭürer’s years as a journeyman probably took the young artist to the Netherlands, to Alsace, and to Basel, Switzerland, where he completed his first authenticated woodcut, St. After three years in Wohlgemuth’s workshop, he left for a period of travel. In 1486 Dürer’s father arranged for his apprenticeship to the painter and woodcut illustrator Michael Wohlgemuth, whose portrait Dürer would paint in 1516. His precocious skill is evidenced by a remarkable self-portrait done in 1484, when he was 13 years old, and by a Madonna with Musical Angels, done in 1485, which is already a finished work of art in the late Gothic style.
Dürer began his training as a draughtsman in the goldsmith’s workshop of his father.
Alte Pinakothek, Munich photograph, Blauel/Gnamm-Artothek Education and early careerĭürer was the second son of the goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder, who had left Hungary to settle in Nürnberg in 1455, and of Barbara Holper, who had been born there. Self-Portrait in Furred Coat, oil on wood panel by Albrecht Dürer, 1500 in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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