Dürer für Berlin Eine Spurensuche im Kupferstichkabinett

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The assortment of handmade drawings and prints by Albrecht Dürer in Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett is one of the most important collections in the world. Through 130 artworks, including masterpieces such as the Apocalypse, or the portrait of Dürer’s mother, the collection’s checkered history itself is now being presented: from the origins of the Berlin Kabinett in 1831, to the Gründerzeit and National Socialism, all the way to the division of the collection—and its reunion in 1994. The catalog sheds light on the significant cultural history of the ways that Dürer was presented in order to create a sense of national identity, as well as the “Dürer scandal” of 1871, which triggered one of the first academic controversies over ascription in German history, in the very year the German Empire was founded. Spectacular acquisitions that catapulted the Kupferstichkabinett’s collection to its current global standing succeeded in rehabilitating it, while also opening up Dürer’s work to researchers and setting milestones in the process of reproducing art. This catalog provides insights into Berlin’s carefully protected treasure chamber.

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471–1528, Nuremberg) is one of the most famous artists of all time in the German-speaking world. He lived through the transition from the Late Gothic era to the Renaissance and had considerable influence on both epochs: as an innovator rounding out the Late Gothic period, and as a curious, creative, and consequential co-creator of the Renaissance. His extensive oeuvre contains more than 100 engravings, around 250 woodcuts, and more than 1000 drawings.

Dürer für Berlin
The assortment of handmade drawings and prints by Albrecht Dürer in Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett is one of the most important collections in the world. Through 130 artworks, including masterpieces such as the Apocalypse, or the portrait of Dürer’s mother, the collection’s checkered history itself is now being presented: from the origins of the Berlin Kabinett in 1831, to the Gründerzeit and National Socialism, all the way to the division of the collection—and its reunion in 1994. The catalog sheds light on the significant cultural history of the ways that Dürer was presented in order to create a sense of national identity, as well as the “Dürer scandal” of 1871, which triggered one of the first academic controversies over ascription in German history, in the very year the German Empire was founded. Spectacular acquisitions that catapulted the Kupferstichkabinett’s collection to its current global standing succeeded in rehabilitating it, while also opening up Dürer’s work to researchers and setting milestones in the process of reproducing art. This catalog provides insights into Berlin’s carefully protected treasure chamber.

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471–1528, Nuremberg) is one of the most famous artists of all time in the German-speaking world. He lived through the transition from the Late Gothic era to the Renaissance and had considerable influence on both epochs: as an innovator rounding out the Late Gothic period, and as a curious, creative, and consequential co-creator of the Renaissance. His extensive oeuvre contains more than 100 engravings, around 250 woodcuts, and more than 1000 drawings.