albrecht altdorfer

About author:

Author name: Albrecht Altdorfer.
(1480, Regensburg, Germany – 1538, Regensburg, Germany). German painter, engraver, architect and graphic artist working in Regensburg, of which town he was a citizen from 1505 onwards, the leading artist of the so-called Danube School of German painting. His most outstanding works are biblical and historical subjects set against highly imaginative and atmospheric landscape backgrounds.
Reference:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/altdorfer/