Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480—12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance effective in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along behind Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube School mood biblical and historical subjects against landscape backgrounds of expressive colours. He is remarkable as one of the first artists to accept an raptness in landscape as an independent subject. As an performer also making little intricate engravings he is seen to link the Nuremberg Little Masters.
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