List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer

Portrait of Albrecht Altdorfer

Monogram of Albrecht Altdorfer

This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538), German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

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Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.^[1]

Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer.^[2] Two of them, one in Munich (30.5 × 22.2 cm) and one in London (41.2 × 35.5 cm), were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood.^[3][4][5] The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdam, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper.^{[2][6][7][8][9]} All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA (see below). The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.^[9][10]

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.^[11]

Painting	Title	Date	Medium	Size	Location	Notes
	Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg[3] Danube Landscape near Regensberg[4]	shortly after 1520[3] c. 1522 – c. 1525[4]	oil[4] on parchment on beechwood[3]	30.5 × 22.2 cm[3]	Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany[3]	Inventory number: WAF30.[3] The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle(de) near Regensburg.[3] Altdorfer also produced an engraving of the same locale. Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:
	Landscape with a Footbridge[5]	c. 1518 – c. 1520[5]	oil on vellum on wood[5]	41.2 × 35.5 cm[5]	National Gallery, London[5]	Inventory number: NG6320.[5] Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:
	Landscape with a Spruce[6] Landscape with Woodcutter[7]	c. 1522[6][7]	pen, watercolour and gouache on paper[7]	20.1 × 13.6 cm[6]	Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany[6]	Inventory number: KdZ 11651.[6] Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:
	Mountain landscape at sunset[8]	c. 1522[8]	pen, watercolour and gouache[8] on paper[2]	20.0 × 13.2 cm[8]	Library of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany[8]	Inventory number: B 812; shelfmark: H62/B 812.[8] Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:
	Landscape with a Church[9]	1522[9]	painting on paper[2]	20.4 × 13.8 cm[9]	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands[9]	Dated[9][10] and signed with a monogram,[9] cut into the tree on the left:
	Mountain Range[11]	c. 1530[11]	oil on panel[11]	53.1 × 45.1 cm[11]	Tokyo Fuji Art Museum[11]	Attributed to Altdorfer.[11]

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Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.^[12]

Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings (8 in Albertina, 1 in Veste Coburg, and 1 in the British Museum).^[13] These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself (it was, in fact, his father's trade).^[14] An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.^[15]

All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram (see below).

Etching	Hand-coloured	Title	Date	Size	Notes
		The Large Spruce[16] Large Fir[17] Landscape with a Large Pine[18]	c. 1517 – c. 1520[16][19] c. 1520 – c. 1523[18]	23.6 × 17.8 cm[16]	Impression in: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England (AD.5.22-122)[16] Hand-coloured impressions in: Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany (1, 99, 89)[17][18] Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1779)[19] Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:[16]
		The Small Spruce[20][21]	c. 1517 – c. 1520[21]	15.9 × 11.7 cm[21]	Impression in: British Museum, London, England (1867,0713.169)[20] Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1778)[21] Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree:[20]
		Landscape with a Big Castle[22][23]	c. 1517 – c. 1519[23] c. 1506 – c. 1522[22]	10.8 × 14.9 cm[22]	Impression in: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2978)[22] Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1780)[23] Signed with a monogram in the sky:[22]
		Landscape with a Double Spruce[24][25][26] Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground[27]	c. 1517 – c. 1520[24] c. 1521 – c. 1522[25][27] c. 1506 – c. 1522[26]	11.0 × 16.2 cm[24]	Impressions in: British Museum, London, England (1895,0617.5)[25] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States (1993.1097)[27] Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (RP-P-OB-2980)[26] Hand-coloured impression in: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (DG1926/1782)[24] Signed with a monogram in the sky:[25][26][27]
		Landscape with a City by the Lake			Signed with a monogram in the sky:
		Landscape with a Spruce and Two Willows			Signed with a monogram in the sky:
		Landscape with Two Spruces and a Castle			Signed with a monogram in a cloud:
		Landscape with a Shaded Cliff			Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:
		Landscape with a Water Mill			Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

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• Reinhold Baumstark [in German] (2002). Die Alte Pinakothek München, Englische Ausgabe. C.H. Beck. ISBN 9783406474521. google books preview
• Susan Dackerman (2002). Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color. Penn State Press. ISBN 9780271022352. google books preview
• Christopher S. Wood (1993). Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226906010.

• Media related to Landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer at Wikimedia Commons