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DÜRER, Albrecht: View of Kalchreut

🖼 View of Kalchreut, c. 1511
Watercolour and gouache on paper
216 × 314 cm
Hamburg, Germany

Meticulous linework maps a distant Alpine village nestled between mountains, rendered in precise pen technique with atmospheric perspective. Dürer's topographical study pioneered landscape documentation as legitimate art, influencing Northern European cartographic aesthetics and establishing the genre's scientific foundation.

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