Jacob---Albrecht+Durer

=** __Albrecht__ ** **** __Durer__ **** media type="custom" key="16511650"    = by Jacob Patton

=**__ background __**= Albrecht durer was born on 1471 and died in 1528. He was 57 years old. Born in Nuremberg, Germany.

=**__Childhood__**= At the age of fifteen Durer was apprenticed to the principalpainter of the town, Michael Wolgemut, a prolific if undistinguished producer of small works in the late Gothic style.

=**__Education__**= Durer began his training as a draughtsman in the goldsmith’s workshop of his father. His precocious skill is evidenced by a remarkable self-portrait done in 1484, when he was 13 years old (Albertina, Vienna), and by a “Madonna with Musical Angels,” done in 1485, which is already a finished work of art in the late Gothic style.

=**__Education/Job__**= Painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.

=__**Achievements**__= Albrecht was a painter, draughtsman, goldsmith, musician and a writer. He did 200 woodcuts and 100 line engravings. Albrecht was a designer and studied anatomy, mathematics, proportions , perspective and he completed a manual of geometry. He also designed the first flying machine

=**__Influences on the World__**= Albrecht Duerer was without doubt the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. Living in Nuremberg, half-way between the Netherlands and Italy, he found inspiration in the work of painters of both the major European artistic centres of his time