Landscape with A Double Spruce

Description

Albrecht Altdorfer was the first German artist to execute pure landscapes. A painter and architectural and metal-work designer in Regensburg, he is most famous for establishing the Danube School of artists devoted to a romantic interest in the natural world, to which Augustin Hirschvogel also belonged.

Landscape with A Double Spruce

Albrecht Altdorfer

1520/22

Accession Number

82592

Medium

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 11 × 16 cm (4 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 11.1 × 16.1 cm (4 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection