Moriz Thausing - Albrecht Dürer Sa vie Son oeuvre - 2012

Thausing Moriz
Albrecht DÜRER, his life, his work.
Translated from German by Gustave Gruyer.
Illustrations by Albrecht Dürer including 66 after the original engravings.
Text updated and preface by Violaine de Vlieger Von Lauer, doctor in history.
Special print run of 2000 copies.
This volume bears the number 977.
Artistic full leather binding, 22-carat gold on the spine and boards.
Genuine laid parchment with a round shape, watermark on the crowns.
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“Albrecht Dürer, his life, his work” by Moriz Thausing
is the first complete study written on the great German painter of the late 15th, early 16th century, the greatest engraver of all time.
Before the publication of this book, his oeuvre did not exceed the regard of connoisseurs.
This study of Albrecht Dürer helped to make this extraordinary artist known to the general public.
He is an artist not only of representation but above all of the soul.
This is what makes the man, behind his work, fascinating, mysterious, magnetic, Christic.
In the course of a life that was not very long, Albrecht Dürer was born on May 21, 1471 and died on April 6, 1528, the face of Europe had changed.
Albrecht Dürer was born, worked, and died in Nuremberg, in Franconia, in the Holy Roman Empire.
No artist better than Dürer carries through his work the stigmata of his time. Nuremberg, situated on the great economic axis connecting Venice to the Hanseatic towns, is wealthy, the arts flourish there.
Albrecht Dürer was quickly recognized as an eminent painter, a great portraitist, he also excels in woodcut and copper engraving, notably his delightful suite of 20 engravings of the “Life of the Virgin.”
The perfection brought to these plates will not be surpassed.
Albrecht Dürer was the first to engrave on copper himself.
He reserved copper for elitist subjects, inspired by humanism such as the “Knight, the Devil and Death,” “Saint Jerome in his cell,” and the famous “Melancholy,” which gave rise to an entire literature of exegesis.
Albrecht Dürer enjoyed during his time a reputation that was rare.