Albrecht Altdorfer

Altdorfer (Danube School) lets landscape swallow the story — towering firs, glowing cosmic skies, and swarming miniature figures under vast, theatrical weather.

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a painter from Germany, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.

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