Annual report 2001 - Polkomtel

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), German artist, the
most recognised painter of the Northern Renaissance.
Apart from painting, his vast body of
interest included art theory, printmaking and
drawings. Dürer was one of the first artists in
Northern Europe who applied the achievements of
the Italian Renaissance in the Dutch realism and
German tradition of art, thus creating his unique,
uniform style. Dürer was the first artist who used
all techniques of making prints known at that time.
His engravings, dry-points and etchings created
new path in the art of engraving. Thanks to the
plenitude of content, innovativeness of form and
mastery of technique, he developed and propagated
the printmaking, the art which was young and little
popular at those times.
Dürer put a lot of attention to provide German
artists with theoretical grounds – he thoroughly