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Albrecht Durer was born in Nuremberg, Germany. We know little about his early
life except the fact that he was the son of a goldsmith and had seventeen
brothers and sisters. We know a lot about him as a man because of the
abundance of art works he left and his writings. He seemed to realize he would
become famous and wanted people to know a lot about him and the pictures he
made. Also ten letters survive that he wrote to his friend Willibald
Pirckheimer. They remained lost for 200 years until they were discovered
hidden in a wall. He made a thousand drawings and watercolors and is
considered to be the greatest printmaker of all time. He liked making prints
because he could make many reproductions of the same picture, and it was a
lucrative business. He made a good profit from it. He made over 350 engravings
and woodcuts. Connecticut College presents a large collection of Durer
woodcuts. The first drawing he made of himself was done in 1484 when he was
thirteen years old. He used a mirror and drew his likeness. He said, "I drew
it when I was still a child." When he was twenty-six he painted a portrait of
himself as a young man dressed in elegant clothes. His friend said the
painting was so realistic that Durer's dog barked and wagged his tail when he
saw it.
