Landschap met groot kasteel

c. 1506 - 1522 · Print

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Where is “Landschap met groot kasteel” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Museum text in Dutch

Een berglandschap met een kasteel met een grote ronde toren. Rechts op de voorgrond een naaldboom.

Rijksmuseum

1505
Settles in the free city of Regensburg
He settles in Regensburg, a free imperial city on the Danube, where he will in time become town architect and a member of the city council.
1506
His first signature on engravings: a monogram
Having begun as a copper engraver, in 1506 he first signs his prints with a monogram of his own, made in imitation of Albrecht Dürer's famous mark.
1511
A journey down the Danube to the Austrian Alps
In 1511 he travels along the Danube to the Austrian Alps, making sketches on the way. Altdorfer is regarded as one of the first German artists to turn to landscape as an independent genre.
1513
In the service of Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck
From 1513 he is in the service of Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck (Tyrol) and carries out several commissions for the imperial court; for the emperor he also made drawings for the “Triumphal Arch”, the “Triumphal Procession” and Maximilian's “Prayer Book”.
1516–1518
Works at St. Florian's monastery near Linz
In 1516–1518 he works at the monastery of St. Florian near Linz.
1519
Takes part in the expulsion of the Jews from Regensburg
As a member of the city's “Council on External Affairs” he is involved in the expulsion of the Jews, the destruction of the synagogue and the building in its place of a church and shrine to the Schöne Maria (Beautiful Mary). He also made etchings of the synagogue's interior and designed a woodcut of the cult image of the Schöne Maria.