THE ITEM:

DÜRER

UND SEINE ZEIT

Albrecht Dürer 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.

His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work. His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions

(WIKIPEDIA)

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THE WRITER:

WILHELM WAETZOLD

Wilhelm Waetzoldt (* 21. Februar 1880 in Hamburg; † 5. Januar 1945 in Halle) war ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker, Geheimer Oberregierungsrat im Preußischen Kultusministerium und von 1927 bis 1933 Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. In seine Amtszeit fällt der Neubau des Pergamonmuseums. Des Weiteren wirkte er als Honorarprofessor an der Universität Berlin

(WIKIPEDIA)

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Beautiful book in the German language about the works and times of Albrecht Dürer, richly illuminated with tipped-in colour gravure prints and reproductions in black-and-white printed through the text-pages, bound in gilt-stamped beige cloth

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COLOPHON

THE PRINTER (TEXT)

OFFIZIN HAAG-DRUGULIN

LEIPZIG

THE PRINTER ( IMAGES)

BOGENTIEFDRUCK DER WAGNERSCHEN UNIVERSITÄTSBUCHDRUCKEREI

INNSBRUCK

THE PUBLISHER

PHAIDON

"GROSSE ILLUSTRIERTE PHAIDON-AUSGABE"

COPYRIGHT

PHAIDON VERLAG

DR. HOROVITZ

WIEN

1935

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SIZED

CENTIMETERS: 27,3 x 19,5

PAGES: 592

 

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CONDITION

GENERAL:

REASONABLE TO GOOD, COMPLETE, VERY LIGHTLY LOOSENING FROM BINDING, EX-LIBRIS (J.H. ACKEMA) FIXED ON FIRST PAGE

COVER:

BIT RUBBED, DIRTY AND DISCOLOURED, SOME STAINS, SCRATCHES AND SMALL DAMAGES, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED AND DAMAGED

SPINE:

IDEM 

PAGES: 

LIGHTLY DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE APART FROM SOME LIGHT (FOXY) STAINS AND A 3 CM TORN ON TOP-SIDE OF TIPPED IN REPRODUCTION: "ANSICHT VON KALCHREUT"

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