List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer explained

This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

Paintings

Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.^[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood. The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdam, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper. All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.

Painting	Title	Date	Medium	Size	Location	Notes
	Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg^[2] Danube Landscape near Regensberg^[3]	shortly after 1520	oil on parchment on beechwood	30.5 × 22.2 cm	Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany	Inventory number: WAF30. The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle near Regensburg. Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale. Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:
	Landscape with a Footbridge		oil on vellum on wood	41.2 × 35.5 cm	National Gallery, London	Inventory number: NG6320.^[4] Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:
	Landscape with a Spruce^[5] Landscape with Woodcutter^[6]		pen, watercolour and gouache on paper	20.1 × 13.6 cm	Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany	Inventory number: KdZ 11651. Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:
	Mountain landscape at sunset^[7]		pen, watercolour and gouache on paper^[8]	20.0 × 13.2 cm	Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany	Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812. Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:
	Landscape with a Church^[9]	1522	painting on paper	20.4 × 13.8 cm	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Dated^[10] and signed with a monogram, cut into the tree on the left:
	Mountain Range		oil on panel	53.1 × 45.1 cm	Tokyo Fuji Art Museum	Attributed to Altdorfer.^[11]

Etchings

Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.^[12]

Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in Albertina, 1 in Veste Coburg, and 1 in the British Museum).^[13] These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself (it was, in fact, his father's trade).^[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.^[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

See also

• Albrecht Altdorfer
• Landscape painting

References

• Book: Reinhold Baumstark .

  de:Reinhold Baumstark (Kunsthistoriker)

  . Die Alte Pinakothek München, Englische Ausgabe. 2002. C.H. Beck. 9783406474521. google books preview
• Book: Susan Dackerman. Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color. 2002. Penn State Press. 9780271022352. google books preview
• Book: Christopher S. Wood. Christopher Wood (art historian). Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. 1993. University of Chicago Press. 9780226906010. registration.

Notes and References

1. Wood 1993, p. 9
2. Baumstark 2002, p. 40
3. Web site: Danube Landscape near Regensberg. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 16 December 2015.
4. Web site: Landscape with a Footbridge. National Gallery. 16 December 2015.
5. Web site: Landschaft mit Fichte. Berlin State Museums. 16 December 2015.
6. Wood 1993, pp. 9–12
7. Web site: Gebirgslandschaft bei Sonnenuntergang. Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 16 December 2015.
8. Wood 1993, p. 9: "Extremely few have survived: two were painted [...] on sheets of parchment glued to panel; three others were painted on paper"
9. http://www.bildindex.de/ bildindex
10. Wood 1993, p. 9: "He dated one of the drawings 1511 and another 1524, and one of the paintings on paper 1522"
11. Web site: Mountain Range. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. 17 December 2015.
12. Dackerman 2002, p. 139
13. Dackerman 2002, p. 139 + p. 141 fn. 2
14. Dackerman 2002, p. 141
15. Dackerman 2002, p. 141 fn. 2
16. Web site: The large spruce. Fitzwilliam Museum. 17 December 2015.
17. Web site: Large Fir. Web Gallery of Art. 17 December 2015.
18. Dackerman 2002, pp. 139–141
19. Web site: Die große Fichte. Albertina. 17 December 2015.
20. Web site: The small spruce; with town background left Etching (Museum number 1867,0713.169). British Museum. 25 December 2015.
21. Web site: Die kleine Fichte. Albertina. 25 December 2015.
22. Web site: Landschap met groot kasteel, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522. Rijksmuseum. 25 December 2015.
23. Web site: Landschaft mit großer Burg. Albertina. 26 December 2015.
24. Web site: Landscape with a double spruce. c.1521-2 Etching. British Museum. 25 December 2015.
25. Web site: Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 25 December 2015.
26. Web site: Landschap met dubbele spar, Albrecht Altdorfer, c. 1506 - 1522. Rijksmuseum. 25 December 2015.
27. Web site: Landschaft mit Doppelfichte. Albertina. 26 December 2015.