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BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.
d DURER'S BROTHERS.
1. Hans Diirer, not, however, the second youngest of the Diirer chil-
dren, so often mentioned in Albert’s biography, but an elder brother, by
trade probably a tailor (Thausing, I, pp. 49, 50, 2d ed.). Photograph
from the painting dated 1500 in the gallery (Pinakothek) at Munich.
There is also a lithograph of this picture by Strixner.
2. Andrew Diirer, goldsmith, born 1484(Thausing, I, pp. 51, 52, 2d ed.).
Above is written, after the date, 1514, and the monogram: “Thus was
Endres Diirer formed, when he was thirty years old.” Photograph from
a drawing by Diirer in the Albertina at Vienna. Another drawing,
of a man seen in less than profile, also dated 1514, and also in the
Albertina, is declared by Thausing (II, p. 67, 2d ed.) to be a second
portrait of Andrew Diirer, and to have been utilized for the man seen
in profile on the left in Diirer’s etching, “The Man in Despair” (No. 85
of this catalogue). Ephrussi, however, who reproduces the drawing
(p. 177), controverts this opinion.
The elder Diirer had eighteen children, but of these only two, besides Albert,
were living in the year 1524, when the latter compiled his family chronicle.
They were Andrew, mentioned above, and Hans, the second youngest, born
1490, painter and pupil of his brother. Three of the boys had been given the
name of Hans. The full list of names, with dates of birth, as noted by their
father and handed down to posterity by Albert, can be found in Lange and
Fuhse, “ Diirer’s Schriftlicher Nachlass,” pp. 4-7. Of none of them, however,
are portraits known to exist, except of Albert, the celebrated painter; Hans, the
supposed tailor; and Andrew, the goldsmith.
e ALBERT DURER.
1. 1484. Photograph from the drawing by Diirer in the Albertina
at Vienna. The inscription reads as follows: “This I drew from myself
out of a looking glass in the 1484 year, when I was still a child.
Albrecht Diirer.” As Diirer was born in the year 1471, it follows
that he was then thirteen years old.
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d DURER'S BROTHERS.
1. Hans Diirer, not, however, the second youngest of the Diirer chil-
dren, so often mentioned in Albert’s biography, but an elder brother, by
trade probably a tailor (Thausing, I, pp. 49, 50, 2d ed.). Photograph
from the painting dated 1500 in the gallery (Pinakothek) at Munich.
There is also a lithograph of this picture by Strixner.
2. Andrew Diirer, goldsmith, born 1484(Thausing, I, pp. 51, 52, 2d ed.).
Above is written, after the date, 1514, and the monogram: “Thus was
Endres Diirer formed, when he was thirty years old.” Photograph from
a drawing by Diirer in the Albertina at Vienna. Another drawing,
of a man seen in less than profile, also dated 1514, and also in the
Albertina, is declared by Thausing (II, p. 67, 2d ed.) to be a second
portrait of Andrew Diirer, and to have been utilized for the man seen
in profile on the left in Diirer’s etching, “The Man in Despair” (No. 85
of this catalogue). Ephrussi, however, who reproduces the drawing
(p. 177), controverts this opinion.
The elder Diirer had eighteen children, but of these only two, besides Albert,
were living in the year 1524, when the latter compiled his family chronicle.
They were Andrew, mentioned above, and Hans, the second youngest, born
1490, painter and pupil of his brother. Three of the boys had been given the
name of Hans. The full list of names, with dates of birth, as noted by their
father and handed down to posterity by Albert, can be found in Lange and
Fuhse, “ Diirer’s Schriftlicher Nachlass,” pp. 4-7. Of none of them, however,
are portraits known to exist, except of Albert, the celebrated painter; Hans, the
supposed tailor; and Andrew, the goldsmith.
e ALBERT DURER.
1. 1484. Photograph from the drawing by Diirer in the Albertina
at Vienna. The inscription reads as follows: “This I drew from myself
out of a looking glass in the 1484 year, when I was still a child.
Albrecht Diirer.” As Diirer was born in the year 1471, it follows
that he was then thirteen years old.
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