View of Nuremberg

Albrecht Durer

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View of Nuremberg
Albrecht Durer
Date: 1496 - 1497
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: landscape
Watercolour and gouache
163 x 344 mm
Kunsthalle, Bremen


The inscription ("Nörnperg") at the upper centre is authentic. Dürer painted this famous watercolour after returning from his first Italian journey.


Albrecht Dürer's House (German: Albrecht-Dürer-Haus) is a Nuremberg Fachwerkhaus that was the home of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from 1509 to his death in 1528. The House lies in the extreme north-west of Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg section of the Nuremberg Castle and the Tiergärtnertor of Nuremberg's city walls.


The house was built around 1420. It has five stories; the bottom two have sandstone walls, while the upper stories are timber framed; the entire structure is topped by a half-hip roof. In 1501, it was purchased by Bernhard Walther, a merchant and prominent astronomer. Walter remodeled the house, adding small windows to the roof so that it could function as an observatory. Walther died in 1504, and Dürer purchased the house in 1509.