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Albrecht Durer J Auger

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ALBRECHT DURER

JESSE AUGER

SELF PORTRAIT

BELIEFS

  • Saw beauty in nature making him a humanist
  • Painter
  • Theorist
  • Devoted catholic

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • The apocalypse woodcuts
  • Knight,death and the devil
  • First known self portrait ( important because it was an inspiration to many later artists.
  • Did over 350 additional woodcuts and carvings
  • Has 60 surviving oil paintings today

PLACE OF BIRTH

  • Germany 1471
  • Lived and worked in Nuremburg

QUOTES

  • I hold that the perfection form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
  • As I grow older , I realized that It was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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