Albrecht Durer:
APOCALYPSE
Buerger Verlag 1946
Text By Rudolf Mueller-Erb
Hard bound folder with 16 plates (title page and 15 Durer engravings)
Size of each plate 12 3/4 by 17"
Very good condition.
Text in German
The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Latin: Apocalipsis cum figuris), is a series of fifteen woodcuts by Albrecht Durer originally published in 1498 depicting various scenes from the Book of Revelation, which rapidly brought him fame across Europe. These woodcuts likely drew on theological advice, particularly from Johannes Pirckheimer, the father of Durer's friend Willibald Pirckheimer.
Work on the series started during Dürer's first trip to Italy (1494–95), and the set was published simultaneously as a 15-page book in Latin and German at Nuremberg in 1498, at a time when much of secular Europe feared an invasion of the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe anticipated a possible Last Judgment in the year 1500.
Dürer was the publisher and seller of this series, and became the first artist to publish a book and create a copyright.
Considering the 15 woodcuts, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (c. 1497–98), referring to Revelation 6:1–8, is often viewed as the most famous piece.
In 1511, Durer published the second edition of Apocalypse in a combined edition with his Life of the Virgin and Large Passion;
single impressions were also produced and sold.



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