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In Ripin Gallery
September 6, 2024 - January 18, 2025
In Ripin Gallery
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was Renaissance Germany’s leading artist and a pivotal figure in European art history. Born in Nuremberg, the son of a goldsmith, Dürer was a painter, publisher, and theorist. Best known as a printmaker, his skill and ingenuity raised woodcuts and engravings to new levels of aesthetic brilliance. Skillfully marketing his prints—all bearing his AD monogram—made him famous and freed him from the demands of patrons. A friend to humanist scholars and the first European artist to publish a book, Dürer was instrumental in establishing the artist as an intellectual. His insistence on artistic invention as intellectual property was also new.
This exhibition draws on the Allen’s rich collection to present the breadth of his techniques and subjects. Some of his best-known works will be displayed all semester, while others highlighting specific themes will be switched midway, making nearly all of the Allen’s Dürer prints visible throughout the exhibition.
The exhibition is timed to support an Oberlin College class on Dürer taught by Erik Inglis.
Image: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), Sudarium Displayed by Two Angels, 1513. Engraving. Mrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund, 1967.50.
Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art
Former Curator of Academic Programs
Student Assistant in Academic Programs
November 12, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.
Albrecht Dürer earned his fame and fortune as a printmaker. A medium of multiples, Dürer could print hundreds of the sam...
December 10, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.
In partnership with Kendal at Oberlin, Erik Inglis (OC 1989), Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art at Oberlin College, delivers two web...
December 17, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.
In partnership with Kendal at Oberlin, Erik Inglis (OC 1989), Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art at Oberlin College, delivers two web...
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