. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . migrated from Hungaryand settled at Nuremberg in 1455. Albrecht Diirer, histhird child, was born in 1471, entered at first the gold-smiths workshop, later became a pupil of the Nurembergpainter, Michel Wohlgemuth, and started to travel in 1490,returning in 1494. In the same year he married AgnesFrey, and took up his permanent residence in his nativetown, which he left only twice for any length of time,staying in Venice from 1505 to 1507, and in 1520 and1521 travelling in the Netherlands. His years of trainingin
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . migrated from Hungaryand settled at Nuremberg in 1455. Albrecht Diirer, histhird child, was born in 1471, entered at first the gold-smiths workshop, later became a pupil of the Nurembergpainter, Michel Wohlgemuth, and started to travel in 1490,returning in 1494. In the same year he married AgnesFrey, and took up his permanent residence in his nativetown, which he left only twice for any length of time,staying in Venice from 1505 to 1507, and in 1520 and1521 travelling in the Netherlands. His years of trainingin the goldsmiths workshop must have given him athorough acquaintance with the graver, and probablybefore starting on his travels he had made some essaysin engraving. Old tradition, supported by a comparisonwith his early drawings, gives as Diirers first individualengravings The Great Courier,* of which only threeexamples are known (Vienna, Dresden, Paris), and * TheViolent Old Man, an evil-looking monster trying tosubdue a woman. In both of these the use of the burin is loose and. 52 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 heavy, the drawing hard and uncertain. These printsdo not yet bear Diirers mark, which consisted originallyof a separate A and D, later was formed JR , andfinally, about 1497, took the shade of the world-famousTT. Durer at first placed his signature, like theGerman masters of the fifteenth century, on the middleof the lower margin of his picture; later, like the
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