Albrecht Dürer Haus

Introduction

Dürer's House is the residence where Albrecht Dürer, the greatest artist of the German Renaissance, once lived and worked. Visiting this well-preserved historic home to remember the artistic giant is a culturally meaningful stop in Nuremberg. Albrecht Dürer is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the German and European Renaissance, hailed as the Leonardo da Vinci of the North. He achieved supreme mastery in painting, printmaking (especially exquisite woodcuts and engravings), drawing and art theory; his works (such as Praying Hands and Melencolia I) are treasures of world art. Dürer was a Nuremberger, and the city is proud of its great native son. This Dürer's House, below the Kaiserburg, is a typical, exquisite 15th-century Nuremberg half-timbered burgher's house, where Dürer lived, worked and created for about twenty years until his death. Today it is a museum, carefully restored and furnished as in Dürer's time: visitors can see the living rooms, kitchen, and most importantly his studio and printmaking workshop (often with printmaking demonstrations recreating his methods), feeling the environment where the master lived and created; the museum also displays reproductions of Dürer's works and related introductions. Visiting Nuremberg's Dürer's House, stepping into the home of this Renaissance giant and remembering his great achievements, is a stop to feel the city's cultural depth.

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