Assignment: Write a biography book report on Durer.
There once was a man of many talents. The book, The story of Albrech Durer, written by Joyce McPherson tells the story of a man’s life in 110 pages. He was a man who lived as an artist from May 21 1471 to April 6th 1528. This version was written in 2001 and was published by Greenleaf Books, LLC. This essay shows a bit about his life, his art, and what we can learn from him.
Albrech Durer was an artist who lived in Germany. His father was a goldsmith and at a young age, Albrech Durer, because skilled at working with gold. Later on in life, he was an apprentice for other artists. He did paintings as well as engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and he also wrote several books. He was a talented man.
The main point in this book was tell the story of Albrech Durer, not only about his life, but also his paintings. Albrech Durer was good at drawing and painting what he saw, but he was also good at putting the visions in his mind into drawings. He was a Christian and that was shown in some of his work. One of his drawings showed how he thought the Apocalypse was described in the Bible which he called, Knight, Death, and the Devil. In this drawing he couldn’t see it happening in real life. It had to come from what he imagined in his head.
The story of Albrech Durer is the story of a man who traveled around, painting, drawing, engraving, woodcutting, and writing. He was an extraordinary man and was sometimes called “the Appelles of his day”. He was well known, but surprisingly quite humble and wasn’t arrogant like some other artists. No matter how talented one is, one can still be humble.
The story of Albrech Durer, tells the story of Durer’s life, his art, and what we can learn from him. He was skilled at a young age, and kept on getting better at what he did as he got older. He had a good imagination and was very good at putting those images from his mind onto paper. He was very talented, but also humble in his work. Although I don’t like reading about artists or about this time period, if one likes to read biographies about artists, this is a good one to read.
