List of landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer


This is a list of surviving pure landscapes by Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter and printmaker who produced the first independent landscapes since antiquity.

Paintings

Albrecht Altdorfer produced the very first pure landscapes in the history of European art.
Only five surviving landscape paintings are generally accepted to have been painted by Altdorfer. Two of them, one in Munich and one in London, were painted in oils on parchment glued on wood. The other three, in Berlin, Erlangen, and Rotterdan, all just over 20 × 13 cm, were painted in watercolour and gouache on paper. All five are signed with Altdorfer's monogram AA. The painting in Rotterdam is also dated 1522 by the artist.
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum owns an unsigned 53.1 × 45.1 cm oil-on-panel painting of a mountain range which it also attributes to Altdorfer.
PaintingTitleDateMediumSizeLocationNotes
Danube Landscape with Wörth Castle near Regensburg

Danube Landscape near Regensberg		shortly after 1520

oil on parchment on beechwood30.5 × 22.2 cmAlte Pinakothek, Munich, GermanyInventory number: WAF30.

The earliest landscape painting of a known place, the surroundings of the Wörth an der Donau Castle near Regensburg. Altdorfer also produced :File:Albrecht Altdorfer Burg Wörth a.d.Donau.jpg|an engraving of the same locale.

Signed with a monogram cut into the tree on the left:

Landscape with a Footbridgeoil on vellum on wood41.2 × 35.5 cmNational Gallery, LondonInventory number: NG6320.

Signed with a monogram in the upper-right corner:

Landscape with a Spruce

Landscape with Woodcutter		pen, watercolour and gouache on paper20.1 × 13.6 cmKupferstichkabinett, Berlin, GermanyInventory number: KdZ 11651.

Signed with a monogram cut into the tree:

Mountain landscape at sunsetpen, watercolour and gouache on paper20.0 × 13.2 cmLibrary of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, GermanyInventory number: B 812; : H62/B 812.

Signed with a monogram in the upper part of the sky:

Landscape with a Church1522painting on paper20.4 × 13.8 cmMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NetherlandsDated and signed with a monogram, cut into the tree on the left:
Mountain Rangeoil on panel53.1 × 45.1 cmTokyo Fuji Art MuseumAttributed to Altdorfer.

Etchings

Altdorfer's landscape etchings, of which nine are known, are the first European prints with such subject.
Of particular interest is a group of ten delicately hand-coloured impressions of the etchings. These are thought to have been painted in the artist's studio, perhaps even by Altdorfer himself. An additional hand-coloured impression of somewhat inferior quality survives in the Rijksmuseum.
All the etchings are signed with Altdorfer's monogram.
EtchingHand-colouredTitleDateSizeNotes


The Large Spruce
Large Fir

Landscape with a Large Pine
23.6 × 17.8 cmImpression in:
Hand-coloured impressions in:
Signed with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

The Small Spruce15.9 × 11.7 cmImpression in:
Hand-coloured impression in:
Signed with a monogram on a tablet hanging from the tree:

Landscape with a Big Castle
10.8 × 14.9 cmImpression in:
Hand-coloured impression in:
  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Signed with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with a Double Spruce
Landscape with a Double Spruce in the Foreground
11.0 × 16.2 cmImpressions in:
Hand-coloured impression in:
  • Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Signed with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with a City by the LakeSigned with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with a Spruce and Two WillowsSigned with a monogram in the sky:

Landscape with Two Spruces and a CastleSigned with a monogram in a cloud:



Landscape with a Shaded CliffSigned with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

Landscape with a Water MillSigned with a monogram in the upper-left corner:

Engravings

Drawings