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Altdorfer

[ ahlt-dawr-fuhr ]

noun

  1. Al·brecht [ahl, -b, r, e, kh, t], c1480–1538, German painter.


Altdorfer

/ ˈaltdɔrfər /

noun

  1. AltdorferAlbrecht?1480?1538MGermanARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). ?1480–?1538, German painter and engraver: one of the earliest landscape painters
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Not only life, but art, too, and perhaps especially modern art: There was no going back, he realized, to the days of Velázquez or Titian, or indeed to Albrecht Altdorfer, the German who painted the astonishing “The Battle of Alexander at Issus” in 1529.

Not only life, but art, too, and perhaps especially modern art: There was no going back, he realized, to the days of Velázquez or Titian, or indeed to Albrecht Altdorfer, the German who painted the astonishing “The Battle of Alexander at Issus” in 1529.

Although about 30,000 works remain accessible, two major temporary exhibitions, Body and Soul: Sculpture in Italy from Donatello to Michealangelo and Albrecht Altdorfer: a German Renaissance Master have been postponed until October.

Composed of 36 pieced-together sheets of large folio paper, the work was commissioned from leading artists of the day, including Dürer and Albrecht Altdorfer.

George R. Goldner, who has been chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s drawings and prints department for 21 years and strengthened the collection with major works by Leonardo, Pontormo and Albrecht Altdorfer, will step down next month to become a private art adviser, museum officials said.

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