Albrecht Dürer – special exhibition at Städel Museum

Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, c. 1490.
Oil on pine panel, 47 cm x 36 cm.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Albrecht Dürer – special exhibition at Städel Museum ‘Albrecht Dürer: his Art in context’ – From 23 October 2013 to 2 February 2014, the Städel Museum hosts Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) –presumably the most important artist of the German Renaissance– in a comprehensive special exhibition.]]>

Source: Städel Museum

The show encompasses more than 280 works, including some 200 by Dürer himself. It features the German master’s oeuvre in the full breadth and diversity of the artistic means of expression he employed. Panel and canvas paintings, drawings, prints made with various printmaking techniques, and books written and illustrated by Dürer will all be on view. Dürer’s on-going exploration of the works of German, Netherlandish and Italian artist colleagues are one of the central themes of this Old Master exhibition in Frankfurt, which places his works and their emergence in their historical context. To this end, works by forerunners, contemporaries and pupils such as Martin Schongauer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans von Kulmbach, Jacopo deʼ Barbari, Giovanni Bellini, Joos van Cleve or Lucas van Leyden enriches this major exhibition project. Through this form of contextualization, light is shed not only on the artistic quality of Dürer’s oeuvre and the particular creative power it radiates, but also on the decisive contribution he made to the emergence of Northern European Renaissance art.

Spreading out over two floors and 1,000 square metres of surface area, the extensive exhibition at the Städel Museum is divided into altogether fourteen thematically oriented sections which will shed light on numerous facets of the life and work of Albrecht Dürer.

“This major presentation at the Städel will differ distinctly from comparable past exhibitions by showing Dürer’s art in the context of its time. His artistic innovations, his theoretical investigations, and not least of all his skill in the marketing and staging of his oeuvre already made Dürer one of the most influential European artists during his lifetime. Our aim is to present this ‘whole’ Dürer in our exhibition”, Prof Dr Jochen Sander, the show’s curator, explained.

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