Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Albrecht Duerer was the first German artist to become an international star in his lifetime. An exhibition in his home town of Nuremberg shows that to make it big, he needed more than talent and hard work.
Add to the mix some ruthless self-promotion and self-branding, a formidable local network, gifted teachers and role models, access to the latest printing technology, useful skills passed on by his goldsmith father, and a tabloid photographer’s eye for sensational topics to grab attention.
“Early Duerer,” the exhibition at Nuremberg’s Germanisches Nationalmuseum, contrives to be both scholarly and spectacular. It unites 120 Duerer works through loans from about 50 museums, including the Louvre in Paris and the Albertina in Vienna. Mais