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Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - February 12, 1538) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.
He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.
See also: Early Renaissance painting
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- http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/altdorfer_albrecht.html
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