Know the Artist: Albrecht Dürer

The adventurous Albrecht Durer (b. Nuremberg, Germany, 1471-1528) was a man of many firsts. A pioneer of the self-portrait and the still-life, he so brilliantly broke boundaries throughout his career, and was duly celebrated as the German superstar of the Renaissance.
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[@TheArtTourist]

This episode’s Community Spotlight is on Sydney-based painter Dalal Farah Baird! Check out her portfolio at www.dalalism.com and her Fine Art America profile at fineartamerica.com/profiles/dalal-farahbaird.

[@kalpparashar5017]

It's been a month you haven't posted anything are you alright if you are travelling or if you are busy that is completely fine I hope everything is fine

[@TheArtTourist]

@@kalpparashar5017 We were travelling! We're also working on something special. Hopefully we'll have a trailer out soon!

[@kalpparashar5017]

@@TheArtTourist okay best of luck for the same

[@artem.non.odit.nisi.ignarus]

Another video of intellectual and aesthetic indulgence. 🥰 This time about one of my all time favorite painters - Albrecht Dürer. 😃 Thank you so much! ❤️

[@athenaartfoundation]

He's just amazing, isn't he?!

[@lephilistin]

My favorite art channel. Thank you for all these videos. They are always exquisite!

[@TheArtTourist]

Thank you!!

[@ArtReviews]

Great video! Dürer rarely gets the respect he deserves.

[@bluefish4999]

One of my favorite artists, I have a very old book from 1936 in German of Durer, a lot of the prints being fold outs.

[@jamesblack9958]

And another little point. I've noticed that you work hard to wear a different outfit on each video. As a visual person, I really appreciate that. It is much harder to remember a name. But much easier to remember a particular outfit.

[@marilynmitchell4252]

Thank you for spotlighting Durer - he is the most inspiring artist of all time!

[@Soppsleven]

My forefather was friends with Durer. His name was Melchior Lorck and he was an artist himself. He made a portrait of Durer, a profile picture with his long curly hair.

[@actuallyfrankie]

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! So happy you have a brand new video out! I absolutely love your channel, both for the content and for the cuddly cameos of your feline assistants. Hullo Jimmy the floof!!

[@TheArtTourist]

Yay thank you! Jimmy says hi! 😸

[@Ashot969]

Thank you for the video 🧡

[@TimurDavletshin]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@ellarieee]

I just found your channel and absolutely adore it! Love your sophistication and amazing talent for art history :)

[@Kay-kg6ny]

Oh yay a new upload! It's a good day.

[@BillyMcBride]

Thank you, Rachael!

[@arelcrest5048]

I've seen those apocalypsic pieces in an art museum!!! They’re hauntingly beautiful.

[@4478nick]

this channel is too precious

[@skeshavarz60]

Wonderful! Very informative!

[@serendpt1954]

I loved this video. Thank you so much! It only occurred to me now that manet's luncheon on the grass is inspired ( more like borrowed) by Raimondi 's judgement of Paris. I lived in such darkness😭 Durer is so sophisticated and i love his monogram.

[@TheArtTourist]

Such a good point - thank you for adding!!

[@christiananderson4909]

Thanks!

[@joelkulesha8284]

I love this channel so much! If we can just distill it into an IV drip that would be great!

[@johnrock2173]

Wow! Absolutely fabulous episode as they all are. Very much appreciate your presentation and style. Also, wonderful clothing and jewelry. Thank you!

[@TheArtTourist]

Thank you!!

[@rowleyzero]

I absolutely love durer and I absolutely love this channel!

[@milaces1323]

Dürer was a selfie pioneer. Got to respect that 😂

[@mabonbran8913]

Hi guys, excellent as ever, I've been eagerly awaiting you next upload with baited breath and you never fail to impress. Quite the occult following for Albrecht, would love to see what these old masters would make with our modern technology and techniques, probably something like your videos... Thank you. 🙋

[@TheArtTourist]

What a compliment! Thank you!!

[@cobaj6226]

One of my favorites

[@stephanerichard6267]

one of my favorite painters of all genres and ages.

[@rodrigoestrada8347]

Thanks Rachel for a resumed but thorough glimpse of Durer's life, that ends up explaining his art. Magnificent video and testimony.

[@TheArtTourist]

Thank you!

[@rodrigoestrada8347]

@@TheArtTourist as an Intellectual Property lawyer, I was very pleased to learn that Durer's was the first case of copyright infringement! a big bonus for sure (will mention in my classes now 😃)

[@TheArtTourist]

@@rodrigoestrada8347 Cool!! Some sources say his was the first art-related copyright lawsuit, others say one of the first, but either way sounds like a historic case in your field!

[@rodrigoestrada8347]

@@TheArtTourist definitely! I will do some research and will share my findings with you 🙂

[@billyandndiogbe3806]

Thanks for the education. As a budding art enthusiast, your channel is the perfect gateway to the beauty of human imagination; both past and present. Keep it up!

[@TheArtTourist]

That means a lot. Thank you!!

[@billyandndiogbe3806]

@@TheArtTourist you're welcome!

[@hussain6469]

YOU look like a renaissance painting my love❤️

[@bethbartlett5692]

Best signature, particularly for the era he was in.

[@andysteele5707]

I love her voice and she's beautiful 🥰

[@jameslabs1]

Same looping music in every video. But all else is very good. Thanks

[@amysomething3370]

'Childless for reasons unknown' Historians have speculated that Dürer may have been gay or bisexual, and in a relationship with author Willibald Prickheimer, who he also made a portrait of. (Also, see his 1496 work 'the bath house)'

[@TheArtTourist]

That could be it!

[@artfrontgalleries1818]

If you get to go to Nuremberg, the old city, you will see a contemporary statue of a giant cast bronze Hare emerging from it's den and cruising all of it's children and all other smaller creatures in it's path. I believe it dates to the 1960's when students and artists alike were feeling pretty dammed repressed and overshadowed by the dominance of art created hundreds of years before they had their voice

[@natalieschulz3417]

So glad I found your channel!!! Would you be able to do a video on photographer Frederick Sommer?

[@harkmay]

These ancient painters influenced SO many artists over the centuries... you can see the influence clearly on Paper money and tatoo art today. totally epic compositions. How prolific he was!

[@TheArtTourist]

Indeed!

[@nirjharaloy6108]

Great initiative! I just found your channel randomly today. Are you a painter? Durer's detailing was incredible!

[@carmenflorica1216]

Super artist

[@burbs7800]

Loving these. Please do one for Jenny Holzer!

[@TheArtTourist]

Will add her to the list!

[@burbs7800]

@@TheArtTourist Awesome! Thank you so much for creating these videos - they are captivating!

[@SrSacaninha]

Oh great video! I'm a Dürer fanboy lol

[@dylansearcy3966]

This is what i love about duper

[@ThildasBeinhaus]

Lovely video! Please do Caspar David Friedrich

[@TheArtTourist]

Our next video 😉

[@Waynetsunami]

I would love to see videos of Richard Diebenkorn and the Bay area painters.

[@michaelbenenson]

Much learnt. Durer's magnitude immeasurable but eloquently received via your S.C. commentary. Ta! Post-Durer, ironic that Germany took a lone direction, separating artistically from the treads of Italian/French portraiture etc. Why?

[@TheArtTourist]

Many thanks! I wonder whether it's because of Durer - he seems to have prompted a new kind of German nationalism in art and literature, especially come the 18th and 19th centuries with Goethe, Friedrich, etc.

[@toddaulner5393]

I made a large version of his Rhinoceros. Really blows my mind he could do such detailed work in such a small scale, I struggled at 10 times the size.

[@andrewgavinet9595]

Idk if it was intended that way but the looking for a whale but finding malaria line was hilarious

[@TheArtTourist]

Thanks! You’ll have to indulge us with the occasional bit of gallows humor.

[@LemmysKilmister]

❤❤❤

[@rosecoloured24]

Came for the cat, stayed for the art history 😂

[@TheArtTourist]

😹

[@xintong611]

Please do one episode about Odilon Redon!

[@Dylan184m]

Make more videos please

[@TheArtTourist]

We’re wrapping up our holiday and then we’ll get right back to work on the next one!

[@octaviaroodt4584]

Gorgeous episode, as always... But I'm not sure about the statement @ 13:00: if Flanders is considered "Northern Europe", surely the Van Eyck brothers' 1432 "Het Lam Gods" was one the first large scale nudes coming out of Northern Europe? With possible earlier examples?

[@octaviaroodt4584]

Oh, hehe, and then it is shown in the next few minutes :)

[@TheArtTourist]

Never underestimate Rachel’s ocd when it come to her research.

[@jamesblack9958]

I noticed the change in your introduction. It is much nicer to include your name.

[@polskimaestro9454]

Could you make a videos about Rene Magritte, Jan Matejko and Aleksander Gierymski? Those are my favourite painters.

[@TheArtTourist]

You have excellent taste!

[@polskimaestro9454]

Thank you. :) And i will take that as yes. ;)

[@marcosnino6052]

Would you be willing to do a video on Hugo David Pohl?

[@adikatom11]

Make a videos about henri rousseau about the naive art

[@oscar3eyes]

May I suggest: Honore Daumier, or Glustave Dore?

[@bethbartlett5692]

Melancholy is the old word for Depression.

[@bobsmith-hd2hi]

i came for the cat in the thumbnail stayed for the art

[@TheArtTourist]

😺

[@skfkfkd]

I'm confused is this a Ceveral Circles video? Why does it have a different name now?

[@TheArtTourist]

We re-branded! We’re going to focus on art destinations going forward!

[@creightonleerose582]

Tha hippie-look was popular back 'ere.... Me thinks you fancy tha man?...;)

[@robertgiles9124]

There is a sulpture in Rome's Verano cemetery that has an angel based on a figure in Durer's Melancolia. Near to where I live in Alameda. California are two excellent copies of that Italian sculpture in Oakland's Mountain View cemetery. The two versions are also featured in my video of MV Cemetery: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6Ovh4mNg81larM

[@roelantverhoeven371]

pioneer of the self portrait? Jan Van Eyck would like a word with you :'D

[@MI-gn9lg]

Can you do Ernst Fuchs? Pleeeease.

[@TheArtTourist]

Fuchs is amazing! We’ll have to cover him when we have a larger audience to share him with. Thanks for the suggestion!!

[@craigcarrippon3060]

Lucian Freud

[@deblogue2230]

I and many others came to see the cat

[@pastorofmuppets4552]

I always thought he was Dutch. Didn’t know he was actually German.

[@toddaulner5393]

Nobody is self taught, nobody. Well, I guess there may be an artist that was stranded as a very young child on a deserted island.

[@tesla3695]

father of graphic design. can you do gericault.

[@petermudt4226]

Why is it so difficult to spell Italian/German/Dutch names correctly?

[@magmasunburst9331]

Maybe he painted himself as Christ because he saw Christ within himself by an act of Grace which is the true message of the new testament.

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

Actually it's Owbrekt *DOOOOOO*

[@Dino_Medici]

14:29 WUT

[@isabellabarnett9288]

Why is he so hot lol

[@buschovski1]

Because hes hot i guess?

[@dejanmarkovic3040]

That's the fakest diction I've ever heard. The inauthentic enthusiasim is....tiring.

[@TheArtTourist]

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