This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.
Paintings
Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.Wood 1993, p. 9
Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. 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. The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdam, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper. All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.
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.
Painting Title Date Medium Size Location Notes Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near RegensburgBaumstark 2002, p. 40 Danube Landscape near Regensberg shortly after 1520 oil on parchment on beechwood 30.5 × 22.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany Inventory number: WAF30. The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle near Regensburg. Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale. Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left: Landscape with a Footbridge oil on vellum on wood 41.2 × 35.5 cm National Gallery, London Inventory number: NG6320. Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner: Landscape with a Spruce Landscape with WoodcutterWood 1993, pp. 9–12 pen, watercolour and gouache on paper 20.1 × 13.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany Inventory number: KdZ 11651. Signed with a monogram cut into the tree: Mountain landscape at sunset pen, watercolour and gouache on paperWood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper" 20.0 × 13.2 cm Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812. Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky: Landscape with a Churchbildindex, search for "altdorfer rotterdam" 1522 painting on paper 20.4 × 13.8 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands DatedWood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522" and signed with a monogram, cut into the tree on the left: Mountain Range oil on panel 53.1 × 45.1 cm Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Attributed to Altdorfer.
Etchings
Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.Dackerman 2002, p. 139
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).Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2 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).Dackerman 2002, p. 141 An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).
Etching Hand-coloured Title Date Size Notes The Large Spruce Large Fir Landscape with a Large PineDackerman 2002, pp. 139–141 23.6 × 17.8 cm Impression in: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England (AD.5.22-122) Hand-coloured impressions in: Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany (1, 99, 89) Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1779) Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner: The Small Spruce 15.9 × 11.7 cm Impression in: British Museum, London, England (1867,0713.169) Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1778) Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree: Landscape with a Big Castle 10.8 × 14.9 cm Impression in: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2978) Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1780) Signed with a monogram in the sky: Landscape with a Double Spruce Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground 11.0 × 16.2 cm Impressions in: British Museum, London, England (1895,0617.5) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States (1993.1097) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2980) Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1782) Signed with a monogram in the sky: 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
Drawings
See also Albrecht Altdorfer Landscape painting
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