Transcript Joan Miró

By Joe & Oliver
Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, third child
and second son of his parents, who had
between fourteen and eighteen children. His
father was a successful goldsmith, originally
named Ajtósi, who in 1455 had moved to
Nuremberg from Ajtós, near Gyula in
Hungary. Albrecht Dürer married Barbara
Holper, the daughter of his master, when he
himself became a master in 1467.
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter,
printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His
prints established his reputation across
Europe when he was still in his twenties, and
he has been regarded as the greatest artist of
the Northern Renaissance ever since. His wellknown works include the woodcuts, Knight,
Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his
Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514). His
watercolours make him one of the first
European landscape artists, while his
ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the art.
On 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Dürer was
married to Agnes Frey following an
arrangement made during his absence in
Basel. Agnes was the daughter of a prominent
brass worker (and amateur harpist) in the city.
However, they had no children.
Dürer died on the 6th April 1528, aged 56,
when he got Typhus Fever. He died in
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, the same
place he was born. He left an estate valued at
6,874 florins—a considerable sum. His large
house, where his workshop was located and
where his widow lived until her death in
1539, remains a prominent Nuremberg
landmark, it has become a well visited
museum.