Self-portrait as a nude
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| Self-portrait as a nude |
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| Albrecht Dürer , 1500 to 1512 |
| Drawing in pen and brush on green primed paper, heightened with white. |
| 29.2 x 15.4 cm |
| Weimar Castle Museum |
The self-portrait as a nude or even just a nude study is a drawing by Albrecht Dürer that was created between 1500 and 1512. The picture has a size of 29.2 × 15.4 cm and is now in the Castle Museum in Weimar .
Image description
The drawing shows Albrecht Dürer without clothes. This is a standing portrait, with the area below the knees, the right arm from the elbow and the left arm from the shoulder not drawn. The drawn part of the body has a dark background. The person depicted looks directly at the viewer. Dürer's name mark is shown in the upper left corner, but was not attached by Dürer himself. In the lower left corner there is now a stamp that identifies the picture as part of the Grünling Collection .
Emergence
The exact time of the creation of the drawing is unknown and dating is quite difficult. It is assumed with certainty that the picture must have been created between 1500 and 1512, since Dürer used the combination technique used here relatively often at that time. According to Friedrich Winkler , the depicted Dürer is significantly older than 29 years and younger than 41, so that he would locate the work almost exactly in the middle of the specified period.
Provenance
Very little is known about the history of the picture. One knows from the stamp that it was in the Grünling Collection before it went to the current owner, the Castle Museum in Weimar. Since the Grünling collection came to a not insignificant part from the holdings of the Albertina in Vienna , the previous owner is assumed to be here.
literature
- Friedrich Winkler: The drawings of Albrecht Dürer. Volume I: 1484–1502 (= annual edition of the Deutscher Verseins für Kunstwissenschaft ). German Association for Art Research , Berlin 1936, OCLC 6897779 , pages 186 to 187 and plate 267.
- Christine Demele: Dürer's nudity: the Weimar self-portrait . Rhema, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86887-008-4 (dissertation University of Jena 2010, 223 pages).
- Erwin Pokorny: Dürer's self-portrait as a nude . In: G. Ulrich Großmann and Petra Krutisch (eds.): The challenge of the object, part: Congress proceedings . tape 3 (pp. 763-1145). Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-936688-66-5 , p. 1005–1007 ( Dürer's life and work. The object as a key to the subject, ( full text online PDF, free of charge, 3 pages, 35.2 MB)).