![Albrecht AltdorferChrist at the cross (The great crucification)Regensburg, 1515-1523Engraving 146x100mm
Black Heart Berlin Tidbit #3
News from the Kupferstichkabinett. A print that stayed in my mind for quite a while was Albrecht Altdorfer’s “Christ at the cross” (..on the cross?), an engraving dated between 1515 and 1523. The location of the crucification scene is striking, in some sort of a forest, overcast by a dramatic dark sky.
Some of you might know Albrecht Altdorfer (born only ten years after Dürer) for his “Battle of Alexander” of 1529, which has the fun wiki-quote:
If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, “The Battle of Issus” [or Alexander] is it.
Epic.
Further reading:
Kupferstichkabinett?http://blackheartpress.tumblr.com/post/15798833301/kupferstichkabinett
Albrecht Altdorfer @ Gemaeldegalerie:http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=36113&typeId=10
The engraving “Christus am Kreuz” in detail:http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=a-altdorfer-ab3-0008](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9t28XWnJ1qkttp9o1_1280.jpg)
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Albrecht Altdorfer
Christ at the cross (The great crucification)
Regensburg, 1515-1523
Engraving 146x100mm
Black Heart Berlin Tidbit #3
News from the Kupferstichkabinett. A print that stayed in my mind for quite a while was Albrecht Altdorfer’s “Christ at the cross” (..on the cross?), an engraving dated between 1515 and 1523. The location of the crucification scene is striking, in some sort of a forest, overcast by a dramatic dark sky.
Some of you might know Albrecht Altdorfer (born only ten years after Dürer) for his “Battle of Alexander” of 1529, which has the fun wiki-quote:
If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, “The Battle of Issus” [or Alexander] is it.
Epic.
Further reading:
Kupferstichkabinett?
http://blackheartpress.tumblr.com/post/15798833301/kupferstichkabinettAlbrecht Altdorfer @ Gemaeldegalerie:
http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=36113&typeId=10The engraving “Christus am Kreuz” in detail:
http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=a-altdorfer-ab3-0008
