On this date in 1922 Germany issued it's largest denomination banknote till then, though as the year progressed they came out with greater and greater denominations, ultimately reaching billions of marks in face value as inflation ran rampant. This one included an engraving of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, which some people took to be a picture of a vampire and symbolic of France, whose war reparation demands were blamed for the financial crisis. Read about it.
An ink drawing of the port of Antwerp in 1520 by Albrecht Dürer. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his visit there. Source.
The patron saints of Austria by Albrecht Dürer (1517).
They are:
Otto.
Source: National Gallery of Victoria.
Today is Austria's national holiday.
Albrecht Dürer died 490 years ago today on April 6th, 1528. His grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg. Source.
Dürer's portrait of Caterina Cornaro was drawn in 1494, and is probably based on a work by his Venetian host Gentile Bellini. Caterina was the last queen of the Kingdom of Cyprus before the island was taken over by the Venetians, and later the Ottomans. She spent her later years in Italy and was painted by Titian, Bellini and others. There are no decent copies of Dürer's drawing on the internet, because it has not been seen since it was looted from Kunsthalle Bremen's emergency storage at the end of WWII. Source.
Albrecht Dürer, Sketchbook of His Journey to the Netherlands 1520-21, page 7 verso.
