List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer

Monogram of Albrecht Altdorfer

This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

## Paintings

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Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer.[2] 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.[3][4][5] The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdam, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper.[2][6][7][8][9] All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.[9][10]

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.[11]

Painting  | Title  | Date  | Medium  | Size  | Location  | Notes

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| Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg[3]

Danube Landscape near Regensberg[4]

| shortly after 1520[3]

c. 1522 – c. 1525[4]

| oil[4] on parchment on beechwood[3] | 30.5 × 22.2 cm[3] | Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany[3] | Inventory number: WAF30.[3]

The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle(de) near Regensburg.[3] Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale.
Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:

| Landscape with a Footbridge[5] | c. 1518 – c. 1520[5] | oil on vellum on wood[5] | 41.2 × 35.5 cm[5] | National Gallery, London[5] | Inventory number: NG6320.[5]

Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:

| Landscape with a Spruce[6]

Landscape with Woodcutter[7]

| c. 1522[6][7] | pen, watercolour and gouache on paper[7] | 20.1 × 13.6 cm[6] | Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany[6] | Inventory number: KdZ 11651.[6]

Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:

| Mountain landscape at sunset[8] | c. 1522[8] | pen, watercolour and gouache[8] on paper[2] | 20.0 × 13.2 cm[8] | Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany[8] | Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812.[8]

Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:

| Landscape with a Church[9] | 1522[9] | painting on paper[2] | 20.4 × 13.8 cm[9] | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands[9] | Dated[9][10] and signed with a monogram,[9] cut into the tree on the left:

| Mountain Range[11] | c. 1530[11] | oil on panel[11] | 53.1 × 45.1 cm[11] | Tokyo Fuji Art Museum[11] | Attributed to Altdorfer.[11]

## Etchings

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Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.[12]

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).[13] 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).[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

Etching  | Hand-coloured  | Title  | Date  | Size  | Notes

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| The Large Spruce[16]

Large Fir[17]
Landscape with a Large Pine[18]

| c. 1517 – c. 1520[16][19]

c. 1520 – c. 1523[18]

| 23.6 × 17.8 cm[16] | Impression in:

* Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England (AD.5.22-122)[16]

Hand-coloured impressions in:

* Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany (1, 99, 89)[17][18]
* Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1779)[19]

Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:[16]

|  | The Small Spruce[20][21] | c. 1517 – c. 1520[21] | 15.9 × 11.7 cm[21] | Impression in:

* British Museum, London, England (1867,0713.169)[20]

Hand-coloured impression in:

* Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1778)[21]

Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree:[20]

|  | Landscape with a Big Castle[22][23] | c. 1517 – c. 1519[23]

c. 1506 – c. 1522[22]

| 10.8 × 14.9 cm[22] | Impression in:

* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2978)[22]

Hand-coloured impression in:

* Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1780)[23]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[22]

|  | Landscape with a Double Spruce[24][25][26]

Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground[27]

| c. 1517 – c. 1520[24]

c. 1521 – c. 1522[25][27] c. 1506 – c. 1522[26]

| 11.0 × 16.2 cm[24] | Impressions in:

* British Museum, London, England (1895,0617.5)[25]
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States (1993.1097)[27]
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2980)[26]

Hand-coloured impression in:

* Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1782)[24]

Signed with a monogram in the sky:[25][26][27]

|  | 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

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## Drawings

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## See also

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* Albrecht Altdorfer
* Landscape painting

## Notes

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1. ^ Wood 1993, p. 9
2. ^ a b c d Wood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper"
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Baumstark 2002, p. 40
4. ^ a b c d "Danube Landscape near Regensberg". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
5. ^ a b c d e f g "Landscape with a Footbridge". National Gallery. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
6. ^ a b c d e f "Landschaft mit Fichte". Berlin State Museums. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
7. ^ a b c d Wood 1993, pp. 9–12
8. ^ a b c d e f g "Gebirgslandschaft bei Sonnenuntergang". Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
9. ^ a b c d e f g h bildindex(de), search for "altdorfer rotterdam"
10. ^ a b Wood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522"
11. ^ a b c d e f g "Mountain Range". Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
12. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 139
13. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2
14. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 141
15. ^ Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
16. ^ a b c d e "The large spruce". Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
17. ^ a b "Large Fir". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
18. ^ a b c Dackerman 2002, pp. 139–141
19. ^ a b "Die große Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
20. ^ a b c "The small spruce; with town background left Etching (Museum number 1867,0713.169)". British Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
21. ^ a b c d "Die kleine Fichte". Albertina. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
22. ^ a b c d e "Landschap met groot kasteel, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
23. ^ a b c "Landschaft mit großer Burg". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
24. ^ a b c d "Landschaft mit Doppelfichte". Albertina. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
25. ^ a b c d "Landscape with a double spruce. c.1521-2 Etching". British Museum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
26. ^ a b c d "Landschap met dubbele spar, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522". Rijksmuseum. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
27. ^ a b c d "Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

## References

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* Reinhold Baumstark [in German] (2002). Die Alte Pinakothek München, Englische Ausgabe. C.H. Beck. ISBN 9783406474521. google books preview
* Susan Dackerman (2002). Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color. Penn State Press. ISBN 9780271022352. google books preview
* Christopher S. Wood (1993). Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226906010.

## External links

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