Excerpt from Albrecht Altdorfer Altdorfer does not seem to have been a man of strong constitution. In the year 1538 he felt that his strength was waning and he made his will on February 12th. Six weeks latter he died. His heirs were his brother Erhard, Court Painter of Schwerin, and his two sisters Magdalena and Aurelia. On his now mutilated tombstone, immediately after his name, is inscribed the word Pau (meister, i. E., Master builder). His heirs or the municipal authorities have given precedence to the fact that he was ...
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Excerpt from Albrecht Altdorfer Altdorfer does not seem to have been a man of strong constitution. In the year 1538 he felt that his strength was waning and he made his will on February 12th. Six weeks latter he died. His heirs were his brother Erhard, Court Painter of Schwerin, and his two sisters Magdalena and Aurelia. On his now mutilated tombstone, immediately after his name, is inscribed the word Pau (meister, i. E., Master builder). His heirs or the municipal authorities have given precedence to the fact that he was architect of the city, but to posterity he lives as painter and engraver. His Engravings express the whole range of his temperament and all the versatility of his nature; a temperament full of imagination, of good humour and surprising ideas; a nature amiable and happy, easy and winning, often more childlike and feminine than most of his contemporaries. He took pleasure in the picturesque and the fantastic and delighted in imaginative subjects. His genius was dreamy and romantic and craved for the world of fairy tale. His range of subjects is rather wide. The central theme is at first religious and later, with the progress of humanism, classical and mythological. He was also interested in genre scenes, in picturesque soldiers and yeomanry, in elegant ladies and costly dress, in jewels and silver vessels, in architecture and, a novelty at that time, in landscape pure and simple, an element which appears also in his religious plates; and mythology plays a more important part than was customary in his time. As a master builder he carried out his architectural backgrounds with expert thoroughness and loving interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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