Coverbild Dürer für Berlin
The back cover of a book, featuring a vintage black-and-white photograph of a long, grand library or reading room. Ornate wooden cabinets line the walls, and rows of desks fill the space. The high, arched ceiling is adorned with decorative metalwork featuring silhouettes of monkeys. A block of German text is superimposed on the left side, with a barcode at the bottom right.
An angled, high-view shot of a black-spined hardcover book titled Dürer für Berlin. The sage green cover features a detailed ink drawing of a robed, bald figure looking upwards. The book is set against a plain white background.
An overhead shot of an open art history book laid flat on a white surface. The two-page spread displays Albrecht Dürer's multi-panel woodcut, The Triumphal Chariot of Maximilian I, running horizontally across the top. The detailed print shows an ornate chariot pulled by a long procession of twelve horses. The rest of the pages are filled with columns of descriptive German text.
An overhead view of an open art book on a white background. The left page contains two columns of German text. The right page features a large, full-color reproduction of the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I, a highly detailed and complex 16th-century woodcut print depicting a monumental architectural structure covered in historical scenes and figures.
An open art book displaying a two-page spread of Albrecht Dürer's The Sea Monster. On the left is the artwork as a full-color painting, and on the right is the same scene as a black and white engraving, showing a mythological creature carrying a woman through the water in front of a coastal castle.
The table of contents, titled Inhalt, from a German book about the artist Albrecht Dürer. The page has a two-column layout with authors on the left and chapter titles with page numbers on the right. Chapters include Dürer für Berlin, Der Dürer-Streit, and Die Sammlung Posonyi. An appendix section titled Anhang is at the bottom.
A two-page spread from a book, featuring an academic text in German. The main title on the left page reads Dürer für Berlin, with a longer subtitle below it. The text is set in two columns on each page against a plain white background, with page numbers 10 and 11 at the outer margins.
An open art catalog spread. The left page contains German text, while the right page features a large photograph of a light-colored plaster bust of Albrecht Dürer by Christian Daniel Rauch. The bust portrays a man with long, wavy hair and a full beard, gazing forward with a solemn expression against a dark gray background.
A book spread showing Albrecht Dürer's 1522 woodcut, Triumphal Car for Emperor Maximilian I. The artwork is a long, horizontal frieze composed of eight panels. It depicts a highly decorated allegorical chariot carrying an emperor and other figures, being pulled by twelve horses in six pairs, each guided by a female personification. The print is surrounded by descriptive German text.
An open art catalog spread featuring a large, colored woodcut on the right page. This is the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I by Albrecht Dürer and his workshop, depicting an ornate, multi-paneled architectural facade covered in intricate historical scenes, figures, and coats of arms. The left page contains descriptive text in German.
An open art book displays Albrecht Dürer's 1501 painting, Nemesis (The Great Fortune), on the right page, with German text on the left. The painting shows a nude, winged woman with a muscular physique standing on a sphere, floating in the sky. She holds a golden goblet and a bridle above a detailed aerial landscape of a town and mountains.
A side-by-side comparison of Albrecht Dürer's engraving, The Sea Monster, on the right, and a colored version of the same artwork on the left. The scene depicts a nude woman being carried away on the back of a scaly, bearded sea creature across the water. In the background, a large castle sits atop a rocky cliff, and small figures on the shore react with alarm to the abduction. The left image is a painting with blue, green, and red tones, while the right is a detailed black and white print.
An open art book displaying a two-page spread on Albrecht Dürer's 1503 drawing, Head of Mary. The left page features German text. The right page shows the artwork: a charcoal sketch of a woman with her eyes closed and head tilted down. She wears a white veil, and her expression is somber and serene against a golden-yellow background.
A two-page spread from a German-language publication by Michael Roth titled Der Dürer-Streit. The text is arranged in two columns, and the right page features an inset image of the title page of an older book, Albrecht Dürers Handzeichnungen.
A two-page spread from a German art catalog discussing the works of sculptor Hans Schwarz. The left page displays a large, circular wood relief of Saint Anne, Mary, and the Christ child, with a smaller circular relief below. The right page shows a circular wood relief of Death, depicted as a skeleton, embracing a young woman. Both pages are filled with descriptive German text.
An open art book displays Albrecht Dürer's 1521 drawing, Head of a 93-year-old Man. The detailed black and white portrait on the right page shows an elderly man with a wrinkled face, a long, flowing beard, and a soft cap, gazing forward. The left page contains descriptive text in German.
A two-page book spread displays Karl Friedrich Schinkel's 1815 design for the book title Lieder der Wehmuth. The artwork on the right page has a deep blue background with the title in gold Gothic script. It is framed by an ornate gilded border with intricate details and small figures. At the top, a golden eagle sits on an arch, and at the bottom, a silhouetted man plays a lute by the water at night. The left page contains explanatory text in German.
A book cover for an exhibition titled Dürer für Berlin. The background is a sage-green textured paper featuring an intricate drawing by Albrecht Dürer of an elderly man with a flowing white beard and hair, seen from the back. He wears heavily draped robes and looks upward. The large, white text Dürer is placed over the drawing, with für Berlin below it. At the bottom are logos for the publisher Hatje Cantz and the Kupferstichkabinett museum in Berlin.
The cover of the book Dürer für Berlin, featuring a detailed drawing of an elderly man in flowing robes on a muted green background.
Dürer für Berlin. Eine Spurensuche im Kupferstichkabinett
Eine Spurensuche im Kupferstichkabinett
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Author: Michael Roth, Lea Hagedorn, Johannes Eberhardt, Hans-Ulrich Kessler, Silvia Massa, Stephanie Sailer
Edited by: Michael Roth
German
May 2023, 384 Pages, 200 Photos
Ebook - PDF (111,6 MB)
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5582-5

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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.
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