

Albrecht Durer
- Category : Art-Fine-art-artist
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Planning 2
Biography
German artist, a painter, engraver and designer, draftsman and theorist, one of foremost artists of the Renaissance. He combined a love of the ancient world with a deep Christian spirit; the favorite painter of Emperor Maximilian I.
Durer married Agnes Frey in 1494, the daughter of a prosperous merchant who set him up in his own workshop. He died 4/06/1528, Nurnberg, Germany, leaving behind an oeuvre of nearly 100 paintings, about 250 woodcuts, 110 engravings, over 1000 drawings and three treatises on geometry and the theory of human proportion.