Albrecht Altdorfer. Master of the German Renaissance

Painter, draftsman and engraver active in Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538) is a major artist of the German Renaissance. However, he remains less known than other masters of his generation, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach or Hans Baldung Grien. Organized in close collaboration with the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the exhibition aims to present for the first time to the French public all the richness and diversity of his painted, drawn and engraved work, placing it in the context of the German Renaissance. An artist close to humanist circles, Altdorfer is both highly original, endowed with a great capacity for formal and iconographic invention, and perfectly aware of the artistic creation of his German and Italian contemporaries. The exhibition, which is primarily chronological in nature, includes thematic sections on the major commissions of Emperor Maximilian, as well as on the goldsmith's art, landscape and architecture, the genres in which Altdorfer was a pioneer.
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