Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2021

Dürer. Beginning. Becoming.

                                                                                                  Let's begin (warning 18+)      Fancy the man? He definitely rings a bell. Pavel Pop always draws someone special to honor. And no, it's not a hare. (Pavel Pop is a Slovakian-Serbian artist who loves to honor famous people by making kinda collages)      Today we are talking abo ut  Albrecht   Dürer from  Nürnberg (Germany). And a tad about the Hare. This is  1471-1528 (AD of course). The most German of German artists, who valued everything  intriguing. His passion made his wife super mad. Despite a stipend from the emperor, his wife had to go into business. She would go to different fairs and markets and sell her husband's "pictures". She wanted a predictable and financially secure life. In her opinion,  Dürer  being just an artisan  had a slow wit and could hold the life of a  respectable burgher.       He could draw everything on everything with everything. He was ex