ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471 Nürnberg 1528) 
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Portrait of Willibald Pirckheimer. (1524) Pirckheimer (1470–1530), a patrician and the leading humanist of Nuremberg, was Durer’s closest friend. He studied seven years in Italy and undoubtedly played a part in Durer’s decision to travel to Venice in 1494. Pirckheimer translated writings by Xenophon, Lucian Plutarch and Plato from Greek into Latin and German. With his knowledge of the ancient languages as well as of Modern Italian, he made literary sources available to the artist which he could not have read for himself, most notably the recent publications from Italy by theorists such as Vitruvius and Alberti. The two friends kept a continuous correspondence during his second Italian trip. Ten letters Durer wrote to Pirckheimer in 1506 still survive. It was Pirckheimer who composed Durer’s moving epitaph on the bronze plaque of Durer’s tomb. “Quicquid Alberi Dureri mortale fuit, sub hoc conditur tumulo” – “Whatever was mortal of Albrecht Durer is covered by his tomb”. The portrait drawing, which must have preceded the engraving, no longer exists, although two profile studies of Pirckheimer that Durer made in 1503 are still preserved in Nuremberg and Berlin.
Addition: Watermark: small jar (Meder 158). On the large panel below five-line Latin inscription: BILIBALDI. PIRKEYMHERI. EFFIGIES/AETATIS. SVAE. ANNO L. III. / VIVITUS. INGENIO. CAETERA. MORTIS. / ERVNT. / M.D.XX.IV. (Portrait of Willibald Pirckheimer at the age of 53. We live by the spirit; the rest belongs to death.) Dimensions: 18.1 : 11.2 cm Provenance: Galerie Bassenge Auction 89, 7. Juni 2007 no. 5674; Private Collection Germany
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Sachgebiete: Deutschland, Graphik, Kunstgeschichte, Kupferstich, Renaissance
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