📍Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 39, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany
1509 – 1528“I was the son of a goldsmith in Nuremberg, one of eighteen children, and at thirteen I drew my own face from a mirror in silverpoint — my first self-portrait. I trained in my father's workshop and then as a painter, and travelled twice to Venice, bringing the ideas of the Italian Renaissance home to Germany. In 1509 I bought this large half-timbered house beneath the castle, near the Tiergärtnertor gate in the north-west corner of the old town; it had belonged to the astronomer Bernhard Walther, who had built an observatory in it. I lived and worked here for the rest of my life with my wife, Agnes, my mother, and my pupils and apprentices. My workshop was on the floor above the street, with good north light, and from it my engravings and woodcuts went out across Europe; Agnes sold my prints at fairs and markets. It was the house of a successful citizen of a great imperial city, and I was proud of it. It has been a museum since 1871, with a workshop where visitors can watch prints being made.”
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