Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – February 12, 1538 in Regensburg) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.

He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.

See also: Early Renaissance painting

External links

• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/altdorfer_albrecht.html
• http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/altdorfer/ ibiblio.org
• http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/a/altdorfe/ gallery.euroweb.hu
• http://www.abcgallery.com/A/altdorfer/altdorfer.html abcgallery.com
• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/A/altdorfer.html artchive.com