AT THE ALLEN / FALL 2024 / 11 ON VIEW / RIPIN GALLERY / THROUGH JAN 18 ALBRECHT DÜRER, PRINTMAKER: OBSERVATION, IMITATION, AND INVENTION 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. Organized by Erik Inglis, Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art and HannahWirta Kinney, former Curator of Academic Programs with assistance from Lauren Marohn (OC 2024). Planning was supported by the Allen’s Exhibition Residency Grant and by a Powers Travel Grant fromOberlin College. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), Hercules at the Crossroads, ca. 1498. Engraving. Gift of the Max Kade Foundation, 1968.82. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), Betrayal of Christ, from the Large Passion, 1510. Woodcut. R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1957.4.
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