The Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg
Albrecht Altdorfer
c. 1519/1520
Medium
woodcut printed from six blocks in red, green, blue, light orange, brown, and black
Dimensions
sheet: 33.9 x 24.6 cm (13 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1962.5.1
About the Artist
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1475–1538
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman who stands as one of the founders of landscape painting as an independent genre. Born in Regensburg or nearby Altdorf, he learned art from his father Ulrich, a painter and miniaturist. Altdorfer spent most of his life in Regensburg, becoming a citizen in 1505 and later serving as the city's official architect and a m...