Durer House, Nuremburg
Maker
Stanley Anderson
(British (English), 1884-1966)
Date1930
MediumDrypoint on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 12 1/16 x 9 1/4 in. (30.6 x 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 16-3/4 x 11-11/16 in. (42.6 x 29.6 cm)
Sheet: 16-3/4 x 11-11/16 in. (42.6 x 29.6 cm)
Credit LineUniversity Transfer from Max Epstein Archive, Carrie B. Neely Bequest, 1940
Collections
Object number1967.116.343
Status
Not on viewThe fifteenth-century Nuremberg house in which Dürer lived from 1509 until his death in 1528 is the centerpiece of Stanley Anderson’s etching. The four-story house, with its distinctive medieval half-timbering, was damaged but not destroyed by a bomb in World War II; it has since been restored. Dürer might be called the ultimate ancestral inspiration for the linear printmaking technique in which Anderson excelled. Still, the print is more in the spirit of a travelogue than a reverent homage.