Albrecht von Haller

Most of the people have heard alp word, but most of them have not idea about the meaning of it especially if they are not from Europe, nor English speaker. Alp means elevated or high mountain. Alps are one of the highest point people have reached in this world. "The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania"( Aubrey, Diem). It is stretching approximately "750 miles long and more than 125 miles wide and cover more than 80,000 square miles" (Aubrey, Diem). With all of these information, the Alps became one of the most tour places in the world. French Alps are portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France. They are located in the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others are shared with Switzerland and Italy. Mont Blanc also Monte Bianco in Italian is on the French-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European Mountain standing at 4,808 meters (15,774 feet). Mont Blanc means White Mountain. The mountain itself attracts many visitors from all over the world, as it is the tallest mountain in the Alps and in Western Europe. The town next to Mont Blanc, Chamonix, was the site of the first ever Winter Olympics. Skiing sporting activities are frequently practiced between the months of December to April (Macaulay, Thea 5). During the two-week…

The painting Portrait of Ralph Dusenberry is an artwork which was created by Arthur Dove in 1924. It was designed at Huntington, New York in the United States of America. The artwork is classified as a painting with oil, portable timber rulers, lumber as well as cut and glued printed broadsheet on medium (Getlein 63). It has a dimension of 22 * 18 in. which is equivalent to 55.9 * 45.7 cm. The painting was credited on the art website in 1949 by Alfred Stieglitz collection (Cram101 26).…

Albrecht Durer is considered to be one a master of the Northern Renaissance as well as possibly being the greatest engraver of all time. All this reverence is well-deserved though, as he is one of the few artists at the time to successfully integrate the stylistic components typical of both the Northern and Italian Renaissance. Durer was born in Nuremberg and was of German-Netherlandish descent (Sayre 257-8). He traveled to Italy twice in his lifetime, once from 1494-1495 and again from…

In 1500, Albrecht Dürer created Self-Portrait at Age 28. Dürer medium in this work was oil ( Getlein 2016 186). Its dimensions are 67,1 X 48,7 cm, according to Web Gallery of Art. Currently, this artwork is in Alte Pinakothek, Munich. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY In 1947, Albrecht Dürer was born in the Nuremberg, Germany. On 1528, Dürer passed away. As J J O’Conner and E F Robertson wrote, Dürer’s father was Albrecht Dürer and his mother was Barbara Holfer. He was their third son (O’Conner and Robertson…

Cahill Expressway 2. Research background information about the artist and their life. Jeffrey Smart an Australian born artist was born on the 26th of July 1921 and sadly passed away at age 91 in 2013. Smart was trained at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Marie Tuck from 1937 till 1941. In 1948 Smart moved to Paris to study at the Academe Montmartre with Fernand Leger. Although he did end up moving back home to Australia three years later. This led Smart to work as an art…

Albrecht Dürer is renowned for his striking self-portraits, delicate watercolors, and detailed engravings. Working primary in the Germanic states of central Europe, he traveled extensively throughout the continent. His journeys in Italy particularly informed his art as he absorbed and experimented with the theories of the Renaissance. Although remains significant disagreement as to Albrecht Dürer’s role in, and reaction…to, the adoption of Lutheranism”, he was inarguably impacted by the…

Albrecht Durer was a German painter born on May 21, 1471, and died on April 6, 1528. Not only was Durer a painter, he was an engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. Durer would make high-quality woodcuts that eventually advanced his career and influence across the European world. This was all done in his twenties! He was even considered the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. Durer’s work mostly revolves around altarpieces, religious works, portraits,…

Emile Durkheim, also known as “The Metaphysician” by his peers, was the first French academic sociologist. Durkheim was born April 15, 1858 in Epinal, located in the eastern French province of Lorraine coming from a long line of a devout French Jewish family, as his father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather were all rabbis. Durkheim attended a rabbinical school at a young age, but soon realized that was not what he wanted to do. He chose to move schools and attended some of the most…

awareness of himself and his work across Europe. Adventuring out as a young gifted apprentice, Durer traveled abroad advancing his gifts, while leaving a lasting legacy of his unique work. Albrecht Durer, 1471, was the second son out of almost 18 children that Albrecht Durer senior and Barbra Holper had, with only 3 of them surviving to adulthood. Originally, when the family came from Hungry their family last name was Ajtos, which means door in Hungarian, when they relocated to Nuremberg…

The Artist I chose to write about is Mr. Albrecht Durer who was born May 21st, 1471 in Nuremburg, Germany, one of the strongest artistic and commercial centers in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His Parents were Barbara Holper and Albrecht Durer senior who was a known goldsmith, at the age of thirteen Durer began to apprentice under his father. The apprenticeship lasted two years before he left to pursue painting. He began to apprentice under Michael Wolgemut, one of the…