Annual report 2001 - Polkomtel

RIVALS, CONTINUERS, IMITATORS
Albrecht Dürer’s art was imitated by a number of artists.
However, Dürer had only a few assistants as he did not keep a
regular studio. He preferred to cooperate with other artists, to
name Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelein or Hans Suess
from Kulmbach. Sebald Beham with his brother Barthel and
Georg Pencz probably also worked at Dürer’s studio.
Death did not cease his fame. Dürer’s drawings continued to
fascinate with style, technique and form. Also the themes of his
works were attractive to artists, writers and art theoreticians, as
they reflected the intellectual approach of Renaissance artists,
who explored the surrounding world and expressed it in its
natural shapes.
Words of Hans Sachs, the famous poet from Nuremberg,
inscribed on the Erhard Schön’s woodcut portrait of the poet
(1528), are an apt description of Albrecht Dürer’s art:
”His art was superior to other artist of his times. He was honoured
by dukes, lords and all artists who still admire and praise his work
and use it as a great example”.