Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints

Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints features more than 40 woodblock prints and engravings by (or after) the German Renaissance master printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). An extraordinary innovator who revolutionized the medium of printmaking in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Dürer was praised for the remarkable compositional complexity and high level of naturalism he brought to his works.

Examples from his celebrated Small Woodcut Passion (1508-10), Life of the Virgin (1503-10), and the Engraved Passion (1507-12) will be featured in the exhibition, as will several compositions by some of the artist’s most influential contemporaries and predecessors, Albrecht Altdorfer and Martin Schongauer, among others. Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints is a traveling exhibition from the Reading Public Museum and is drawn from its permanent collection. Additional works from Connecticut College’s Wetmore Print Collection will also be featured in the exhibition.