Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c.
1480 -
1538) was the leader of the Danubian School in southern
Germany, and contemporary of
Albrecht Dürer. Landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.
See also: Early Renaissance painting