ALBRECHT-DÜRER-HAUS
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The house of Albrecht Dürer, miraculously saved from the bombing, shows the living quarters and workshop of the Nuremberg master.
Built around 1420, this attractive half-timbered house at the foot of the Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg) was the home and workplace of the famous German painter, engraver and illustrator Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), who lived and worked here from 1509 until his death in 1528. The imposing half-timbered house was miraculously spared the bombardments of the Second World War. It is therefore not only one of the few intact bourgeois houses from Nuremberg's era of prosperity, but also the only 16th-century artist's house in Northern Europe. Converted into a museum in 1828, the house is still entirely dedicated to the genius Albrecht Dürer, with a modern museography that includes numerous touch screens for discovering the works in digital format.
Tour route. On the second floor, a room is devoted to copies of Dürer's works, so you can get an idea of the master's masterpieces without having to run back and forth between Vienna, Munich and Madrid, where some of the originals can be found. Then there are the rooms where the artist lived and worked, but we can't tell today what the different areas were used for. The only certainty: the kitchen and latrines! After passing through a number of rooms displaying tools essential to the engraving technique, you'll reach the top floor where, in a darkness conducive to conservation, some of the master's original chalcographies (copper engravings) await you.
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This house immerses you in the authentic. Perhaps a little long for the little ones... but that I recommend from adolescence!