Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)

Albrecht Dürer, the most important German Renaissance artist, was of crucial importance for the "Model Germania". A sense of national superiority crystallized around his person and his work around 1500, when Celtis had designated him as the "German Apelles". Dürer's elevation to a representative of "Germania" is not surprising, considering that he was known to, or friends with, all of the literary protagonists of "Germania", including Celtis, Brant, Wimpfeling and Schedel.

Ferdinand Piloty the Elder (1786–1844), Albertus Durerus Noricus (after Dürer's self-portrait from 1500 in Munich, Alte Pinakothek), lithography on clay plate with white heightening, 51.7 x 39.3 cm, ca.1817/1834, source: Museen der Stadt Nürnberg – Graphische Sammlung.