Mountain Landscape with Bridge

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.