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With the Danube school, whose members included Albrecht Altdorfer and his younger brother, Erhard, the landscape was first considered a worthy subject. The Danube style was characterized by a lively, graphic intricacy of landscape. Erhard Altdorfer worked less independently than Albrecht and often aligned himself with the work of other artists, such as the Cranach workshop. The mannered style of this drawing suggests it was produced late in the artist’s life. During that period he also produced woodcut illustrations for the Lübeck Bible edited by Johannes Bugenhagen of 1533–34, the first Low German edition of the Luther Bible, which was published prior to the first complete High German edition.

Details

  • Title: Mountain Landscape with Bridge
  • Creator: Erhard Altdorfer
  • Date Created: c. 1530
  • Physical Dimensions: 28.2 × 19.4 cm
  • Technique and Material: Pen and black ink on red prepared paper
  • Provenance: Acquired in 1900 from J. Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main
  • Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
  • Inv.-No.: C 1900-74
  • ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-845516
  • External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/kupferstich-kabinett/
  • Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett/ Herbert Boswank Text © cat. no. 78 / Claudia Schnitzer
  • Artist Dates: after 1480 Regensburg–after 1561 Schwerin
  • Artist Biography: At the beginning of his career, the artist may have worked in a workshop together with this older brother, Albrecht, whose influence on Erhard’s early work is evident. In 1512 Erhard moved to Schwerin. There he was active until the end of his life as court painter and architect to the dukes of Mecklenburg, first for Henry the Peaceful and later for his successors.

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