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...started traveling in 1490 when he was not quite 19. He had spent four years apprenticed to a master painter and engraver in Nuremberg, Michael Wolgemut; he now set off to Colmar, to work under Martin Schongauer. The trip turned into a couple of Wanderjahrce through Germany, and he did not reach Colmar until 1492. When he got there, Schongauer was dead. His restless wanderings across Europe included two trips to Venice, and were capped by a yearlong sojourn in The Netherlands, where he was a celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included...
Durer and His Time, is an exhibition of German drawing now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through April 17. The exhibition spans the golden age of German draftsmenship, from 1470 to 1530--an age in which Durer was the central figure. Numbered among the works of Schongauer, the Cranachs, the Holbeins, Grunewald, and other of Durer's forerunners, contemporaries, and followers, are 40 drawings by Durer himself...
...Bust of an Old Man by Durer's predecessor, Martin Schongauer, is a pronounced example of the human quality which we associate with Gothic naturalism Schongauer's work provided Durer with an example of naturalism which united the Flemish realistic tradition with the grace and inventiveness of Gothic drawing. Durer's early work, influenced by this example, abounds in ideas, emotional expression, and vivid Gothic naturalism...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: Type design by Herman Zapf, internationally renowned calligrapher, type-designer, and typographer. The Art Treasures of Thailand and The Passion According to Martin Schongauer continue...
...skillful grouping and juxtaposition of pictures in this exhibit helps reveal many other aspects of the complex character of Durer and his times. Perhaps the representation of Schongauer and Wolgemut are not as rewarding as they might be, but on the whole the Museum has provided a collection of great interest to students of the later middle ages and the northern renaissance, as well as to those just interested in some of the finer examples of Durer's craft...