How Altdorfer’s small and deeply enigmatic picture gave art a new direction. By Michael Prodger Very little is known about Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538), the painter of St George and the Dragon, a ...

If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, "The Battle of Issus" is it. Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 B.C. when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for ...

Albrecht Altdorfer was a giant of 16th-century art, and his work can be found in the collections of the world’s great museums. Yet museumgoers outside German-speaking Europe may barely know his name.

Albrecht Altdorfer's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 66,611 USD for works on papers, and 58,489 USD for paintings. In the past 12 months, their prints & ...

Is this the scariest painting in the world? The Battle of Issus by Albrecht Altdorfer – known in German simply as the Alexanderschlacht or Alexander battle – is a wonder. It has something about it of ...

Der Pariser Louvre präsentiert ab morgen die erste Ausstellung des deutschen Malers Albrecht Altdorfer in Frankreich. Der Künstler (um 1480–1538) gehört neben Albrecht Dürer und Lucas Cranach dem ...

Am Donnerstag, 26. September, von 19 bis 20 Uhr, kann man im ARS Electronica Center den Sebastiansaltar von Albrecht Altdorfer bestaunen. Im Zuge des Deep-Space-Live wird der Altar als ...

From Titian and Rembrandt to Van Gogh and Goya, the Bavarian State Painting Collection (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen) in Munich, Germany, holds art by some of the world’s most famous names in ...