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Albrecht Altdorfer


Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near RegensburgFebruary 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.

He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.

See also: Early Renaissance painting

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