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   Dürer / Duerer
   Albrecht
   A. D. ; Thürer / Türer / Duerer / Durer / monogram AD with a larger A above D ;
   Agnes Frey ;
   
   1471 in Nuremberg, Franconia
   1528
   Nuremberg, Franconia
   goldsmith Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427 c.-1502 c.)
   
   taught by his father, later by painter & woodcutter ->Michael Wolgemut (after 1486 until 1489)
   Germany
   humanist Willibald Pirckheimer: Horapollon, 1514; humanist Philipp Melanchthon ; humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam; possibly also for Weltchronik of Hartmann Schedel (1492); naturalist ->Conrad Gesner / Konrad Gessner: Historia Animalium vol. 1 (1551) Rhinoceros-cf. Robb-Smith 1951: 4 & # 4; instrument maker Georg Hartmann (1489-1564) for 3D astronomical globe;
   Maximilian I (HRR) ; cardinal-elector Albert of Mainz, Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony,
   Georg Schongauer ; astronomer Konrad Heinfogel (+1517) & mathematician Johannes Stabius (+1522) on 2 celestial maps & 1 worldmap (1515, 1st printed star map in stereographic projection, in reverse) ; printer Anton Koberger; Natur & Kunst. Handschriften & Alben aus der Ambraser Sammlung Erzherzog Ferdinands II, Vienna 1995:47-49;
   architectural, astronomical, technical, and natural copperplate engraving, watercolour paintin, oil painting, woodcut, drawing in ink, and charcoal
   www.ihk-nuernberg.de/de/IHK-Magazin-WiM/WiM-Archiv/WIM-Daten/2003-12/Berichte-und-Analysen/Duerers-Sternenkarte-1515-.jsp ;;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer%27s_Rhinoceros ;
   Ludwig 1998; Dance 1989: 20, 151-3 & 215; Pinault 1991 ; W. Iwanczak: Kartenmacher 2005: 140-54; E. Koreny: A. D.- Animal & Plant Studies of the Renaissance (New York 1988); Kusukawa 2012: 6-8 ; Jackson 1993: 21-3; Pamela Smith: Body of the Artisan, 2004: VI-VII & 6 ; Hans Gaab: Himmel über Nürnberg (2015) ; Warner 1979 ; Focus 1993: 521 et passim; Peter Whitfield 1995 & 1997: 21-3 ; Wheeler 2003: 10-1; Kemp 2006: 70, 101-2, 173-9, 233-236, 254, 265,
   Mostly active in Nürnberg/Nuremberg; further places of activity: Switzerland, France, the Netherlands; known as painter, printmaker, engraver & mathematician; on the Dürer-Hartmann star globe see http://www.atlascoelestis.com/Hartmann%201538%20base.htm.
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