List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

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This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

Paintings[edit]

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Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer.[2] Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.[3][4][5] The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdan, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper.[2][6][7][8][9] All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.[9][10]

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.[11]

Painting Title Date Medium Size Location Notes
Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg[3]

Danube Landscape near Regensberg[4]

shortly after 1520[3]


c. 1522 – c. 1525[4]

oil[4] on parchment on beechwood[3] 30.5 × 22.2 cm[3] Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany[3] Inventory number: WAF30.[3]

The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle(de) near Regensburg.[3] Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale.
Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:

Landscape with a Footbridge[5] c. 1518 – c. 1520[5] oil on vellum on wood[5] 41.2 × 35.5 cm[5] National Gallery, London[5] Inventory number: NG6320.[5]

Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:

Landscape with a Spruce[6]

Landscape with Woodcutter[7]

c. 1522[6][7] pen, watercolour and gouache on paper[7] 20.1 × 13.6 cm[6] Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany[6] Inventory number: KdZ 11651.[6]

Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:

Mountain landscape at sunset[8] c. 1522[8] pen, watercolour and gouache[8] on paper[2] 20.0 × 13.2 cm[8] Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany[8] Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812.[8]

Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:

Landscape with a Church[9] 1522[9] painting on paper[2] 20.4 × 13.8 cm[9] Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands[9] Dated[9][10] and signed with a monogram,[9] cut into the tree on the left:

Mountain Range[11] c. 1530[11] oil on panel[11] 53.1 × 45.1 cm[11] Tokyo Fuji Art Museum[11] Attributed to Altdorfer.[11]

Etchings[edit]

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Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.[12]

Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in Albertina, 1 in Veste Coburg, and 1 in the British Museum).[13] These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself (it was, in fact, his father's trade).[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

Etching Hand-coloured Title Date Size Notes

The Large Spruce[16]

Large Fir[17]
Landscape with a Large Pine[18]

c. 1517 – c. 1520[16][19]

c. 1520 – c. 1523[18]

23.6 × 17.8 cm[16] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impressions in:

Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:[16]

The Small Spruce[20][21] c. 1517 – c. 1520[21] 15.9 × 11.7 cm[21] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1778)[21]

Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree:[20]

Landscape with a Big Castle[22][23] c. 1517 – c. 1519[23]

c. 1506 – c. 1522[22]

10.8 × 14.9 cm[22] Impression in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1780)[23]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[22]

Landscape with a Double Spruce[24][25][26]

Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground[27]

c. 1517 – c. 1520[24]

c. 1521 – c. 1522[25][27] c. 1506 – c. 1522[26]

11.0 × 16.2 cm[24] Impressions in:

Hand-coloured impression in:

  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1782)[24]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[25][26][27]

Landscape with a City by the Lake Signed with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with a Spruce and Two Willows Signed with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with Two Spruces and a Castle Signed with a monogram in a cloud:


 Landscape with a Shaded Cliff Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

Landscape with a Water Mill Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

Engravings[edit]

Drawings[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Wood 1993, p. 9
  2. ^ a b c d Wood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper"
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Baumstark 2002, p. 40
  4. ^ a b c d "Danube Landscape near Regensberg". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Landscape with a Footbridge". National Gallery. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Landschaft mit Fichte". Berlin State Museums. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d Wood 1993, pp. 9–12
  8. ^ a b c d e f g "Gebirgslandschaft bei Sonnenuntergang". Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h bildindex(de), search for "altdorfer rotterdam"
  10. ^ a b Wood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522"
  11. ^ a b c d e f g "Mountain Range". Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  12. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 139
  13. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2
  14. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 141
  15. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
  16. ^ a b c d e "The large spruce". Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  17. ^ a b "Large Fir". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  18. ^ a b c Dackerman 2002, pp. 139–141
  19. ^ a b "Die große Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  20. ^ a b c "The small spruce; with town background left Etching (Museum number 1867,0713.169)". British Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  21. ^ a b c d "Die kleine Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  22. ^ a b c d e "Landschap met groot kasteel, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  23. ^ a b c "Landschaft mit großer Burg". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  24. ^ a b c d "Landschaft mit Doppelfichte". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  25. ^ a b c d "Landscape with a double spruce. c.1521-2 Etching". British Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  26. ^ a b c d "Landschap met dubbele spar, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  27. ^ a b c d "Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

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