Albrecht Durer fans??? Or people who know a lot about him??

Question

I'm writing a paper on the German Renaissance and Durer's role in the movement. Here are some questions I need to answer and incorporate into my paper...but I don't really have a clue how to do it. I only know so much about the guy....if you could give me a brief sentence or two answering these questions, that would really help! I could go from there!

Among the questions to consider are: what were some of the ideas he brought to the Humanist scene in Nuremberg? How did he develop those ideas? Who did he work with? Where was he educated? How did he give visual expression to the Humanist movement?

Answer 1

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was the most famous painter and printmaker in the history of German art. He was dismayed that there was no major school of German art. It was broken up into several minor schools of painting. Durer was the son of a goldsmith. He began his career as a draughtsman in his father's goldsmith workshop. He travelled to Italy in 1494, during the Italian Renaissance and met some of the Italian masters like Bellini. He brought back to Nuremberg some humanist ideas from the Italian Renaissance. He painted mythological, non-religious themes as well as religious ones. Italian influences replaced the earlier Gothic ones in his paintings especially perspective. In his famous Selfportrait of 1498, he represented himself as the aristocratic ideal of the Renaisance. He painted himself with incredible self-confidence. He was also a scholar. He wrote books on geometry, perspective, and the measurements of the human body. He was the first artist to paint realistic watercolors from nature. He was well known for his woodcuts. He died on April 6, 1528. He was the greatest artist of Germany. I hope that this has been a help to you.

Answer 2

Go to a library.  It is ridiculous for you to write a paper when you are getting all of your information from sources that do not have any credibility.  

You are going to have to understand humanism for what it is and that takes far more information than you can garner by asking people with only a marginal knowledge of it if they have that much.