Albrecht Durer was without doubt the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. He found inspiration in the work of painters of both the major European artistic centres of his time. Albrecht was born in Nuremburg, Germany (1471-1528).

The range and versatility of Durer's work is astonishing and was to have a major influence on the development of European art. An innovator he is the first artist who is known to have painted a self-potrait and to have done a landscape painting of a specific scene.

Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance. Albrecht Dürer who painted several fine botanical , wildlife and landscape watercolors, is generally considered among the earliest exponents of the medium. His drawings and water colours are impressive for their diversity of subjectmatter and the varied media in which they were produced.



120 highly fade-resistant and bright colours.
The light-fastness is indicated as :
*** maximum light-fastness
** very good light-fastness
* good light-fastness

Watersoluble artists’ colour pencils

Fully watersoluble colour lead made of high-quality artists’ pigments

• Fully watersoluble color lead
• Soft colour laydown
• High-quality pigments of unsurpassed lightfastness and color brilliance
• Resistant to breakage thanks to secural process
• Enviromentally friendly water-based varnish (only applied by Faber-Castell)
• Lightfastness *** 64 of 120 colors
  
  

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