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In Our Time: Culture

Albrecht Dürer

In Our Time: Culture

BBC

History

4.6978 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) who achieved fame throughout Europe for the power of his images. These range from his woodcut of a rhinoceros, to his watercolour of a young hare, to his drawing of praying hands and his stunning self-portraits such as that above (albeit here in a later monochrome reproduction) with his distinctive A D monogram. He was expected to follow his father and become a goldsmith, but found his own way to be a great artist, taking public commissions that built his reputation but did not pay, while creating a market for his prints, and he captured the timeless and the new in a world of great change.

With

Susan Foister Deputy Director and Curator of German Paintings at the National Gallery

Giulia Bartrum Freelance art historian and Former Curator of German Prints and Drawings at the British Museum

And

Ulinka Rublack Professor of Early Modern European History and Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge

Studio production: John Goudie

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programs. Hello Albertura 1471 to 1528, achieved international fame through the power of his mesmerizing

0:56.4

meticulous images and those images have never lost their power.

1:00.6

Initially his fame came from woodcuts, such as that of our rhinoceros, or his watercolors over

1:05.8

young hair, his drawing of praying hands, or his stunning self-portraits and his A-D monogram. Despite opposition he found his own way to become a great artist

1:15.6

taking public commissions that built up his reputation but didn't pay while creating a

1:20.4

market for his profitable prints and he captured the timeless and the new in a world

1:24.9

of great change in his paintings.

1:27.6

With Mideliskus Abbotures Life and Works are Susan Feister, deputy director and curator

1:32.3

of German paintings at the National Gallery,

1:34.9

Julia Batram, freelance art historian and former Curator of German Prince and Drawings of the

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