Painter and printmaker, Nuremberg
Albrecht Dürer
Germany’s greatest Renaissance artist, who also wrote a book of geometry.
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The life
1471–1528Born Nuremberg, Germany
Albrecht Dürer was a painter, engraver and woodcut maker from Nuremberg, famous across Europe in his own lifetime for his self-portraits, his hare and his prints. Late in life he wrote Underweysung der Messung (1525), a handbook of geometry for artists, and in it printed the first nets for folding paper solids: flat shapes you cut out and fold into a three-dimensional form. Our card is one of them.