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40.000 BC: The oldest confirmed sculptures in the world, the 41,000 to 39,000-year-old Lion Man [59] and the 42,000 to 41,000-year-old Venus of Hohle Fels [60] [61] 15th century: Drypoint by the Housebook Master, a south German artist [62] 1525: Ray tracing by Albrecht Dürer [63] 1642: Mezzotint by Ludwig von Siegen
Renaissance. The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and sciences were influenced, notably by the spread of Renaissance humanism to the various German ...
Appearance. hide. Late Gothic Marienaltar by Tilman Riemenschneider, 1505-1508, Herrgottskirche, Creglingen. German art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art. Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and ...
Herman Henlein (older brother) Peter Henlein (also spelled Henle or Hele) [ 1 ] (1485 - August 1542), a locksmith, clockmaker, and watchmaker of Nuremberg, Germany, is often considered the inventor of the watch. [ 2 ][ 3 ] He was one of the first craftsmen to make small ornamental portable clocks which were often worn as pendants or attached to ...
Albrecht Dürer (/ ˈdjʊərər /; [ 1 ]German: [ˈʔalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 1 ] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [ 4 ] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to ...
A total of 19 etchings were produced during the Bern years; ten of these were made between 1903 and 1905 in the cycle "Inventionen" (Inventions), [69] which were presented in June 1906 at the "Internationale Kunstausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens 'Secession'" (International Art Exhibition of the Association for Graphic Arts ...
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across ...
Joseph Heinrich Beuys (/ b ɔɪ s / BOYSS, German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and, with Heinrich Böll, Johannes Stüttgen, Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, created the Free International University for Creativity ...