Albrecht Altdorfer

Around 1511, Albrecht Altdorfer travelled down the river and south into the Alps, and the scenery moved him deeply. He became one of the first artists to treat landscape as a subject on its own. His Landscape with Footbridge, now at the National Gallery in London, is claimed to be the first pure landscape in oil. For Duke William IV of Bavaria he painted The Battle of Alexander at Issus in 1529. He settled in Regensburg on the Danube, became town architect and a councillor, and died there in 1538. Browse 296 works by Albrecht Altdorfer from 26 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikipedia