Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries
18 December 2004 – 30 January 2005
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), described by art historians as a printmaker of all time, gained the foundations of his artistic training in his native Nuremberg.
He rose to fame with a series of woodcuts to the Apocalypse of St John, created in 1498. They were meant to shock people, to compel them to experience, pray and ponder. By the 1620s, he was already one of the most famous artists in Europe. He was also probably the first artist in northern Europe to paint so many self-portraits. In addition to his artistic activities, Dürer made a name for himself as an art theorist, working on perspective and the proportions of the human body.
In addition to Dürer’s loose graphic works not included in cycles, it will be possible to admire his graphic genius on the basis of several works from great cycles such as the Apocalypse of St. John, the Great Passion or the Life of the Virgin Mary.
In addition to Dürer’s prints, the exhibition will feature works by artists contemporary to him, most notably Lukács Cranach – Dürer’s peer, through whom German art took on the forms and content of the Renaissance. Other authors of the prints on display are German and Italian artists from the late 15th and early 16th centuries: Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Burgkmair, Albert Glockendon, Daniel Hopfer I., Ludwig Krug, Hans Leonhard Schaufelein, Martin Schongauer, Michael Wohlgemuth, Martin Zatzinger, Giulio di Antonio Bonasone, Adamo Ghisi, Giorgio Ghisi, Marcantonio Raimondi, Adamo Scultori, Enea Vico and Beatricus.
The collection of more than 100 prints on display comes from the collection of the East Slovak Museum in Košice, or, more precisely, is part of the legacy of Imrich Henszlmann, who bequeathed his entire rich and diverse collection to the local museum in 1888.
