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Albrecht Altdorfer

1480 - 1538

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Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 – 12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School, setting biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to take an interest in landscape as an independent subject. As an artist also making small intricate engravings he is seen to belong to the Nuremberg Little Masters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albrecht Altdorfer is the 129th most popular painter (up from 147th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Germany (up from 333rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Painter.

Albrecht Altdorfer is most famous for his painting, "The Battle of Alexander at Issus."

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 129 out of 2,023. Before him are Raja Ravi Varma, Annibale Carracci, Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Franz Marc, and Gustave Moreau. After him are Hilma af Klint, Jean Dubuffet, Arnold Böcklin, Zeuxis, André Derain, and Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan, Lucrezia Borgia, Matthias Grünewald, and Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy. After him are Lorenzo Lotto, Johann Georg Faust, Joachim Patinir, Gazi Husrev-beg, Götz von Berlichingen, Pier Gerlofs Donia, and Saint Cajetan. Among people deceased in 1538, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 2. Before him is Hatice Sultan. After him are Diego de Almagro, Askia Mohammad I, Andrea Gritti, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy, Elena Glinskaya, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Érard de la Marck, and Estêvão Gomes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 312 out of 7,253. Before him are Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Helmut Schmidt (1918), and Carl Schmitt (1888). After him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808), Karl Ziegler (1898), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Hermann Staudinger (1881), and Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Albrecht Altdorfer ranks 10. Before him are Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Hans Memling (1435), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), and Franz Marc (1880). After him are Emil Nolde (1867), Otto Dix (1891), Anselm Kiefer (1945), Franz Stuck (1863), Gerhard Richter (1932), and Hans von Aachen (1552).

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