Dürer

American  

[door-er, dyoor-, dy-ruhr] / ˈdʊər ər, ˈdyʊər-, ˈdü rər /

noun

1. Albrecht 1471–1528, German painter and engraver.

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Dürer British  

/ ˈdyːrər /

noun

1. Albrecht (ˈalbrɛçt). 1471–1528, German painter and engraver, regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance and noted particularly as a draughtsman and for his copper engravings and woodcuts

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Example Sentences

The splendor of the pieces stunned even worldly observers like Albrecht Durer, the Renaissance master.

From Los Angeles Times

In his 2021 book, “Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest,” Fernando Cervantes, a British-based Mexican historian, cites Durer’s 1520 journal entry after viewing a treasure horde dispatched to Carlos V from Hernán Cortés.

From Los Angeles Times

A 500-year-old engraving by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, which is said to have been found at a tip, has sold at auction for £26,500.

From BBC

Dürer, born in 1471, was a major painter and printmaker who introduced Renaissance art to Germany and northern Europe.

From BBC

A two-day event, the auction was a high point of the Swiss social season, at which Mr. Kornfeld — Ebi to almost everyone who knew him — typically sold millions of dollars of works by Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and other old masters, along with those by more recent artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.

From New York Times