September 9 through December 3, 2000
Busch-Reisinger Museum (more about the Busch-Reisinger)

This exhibition highlights several series of the Passion of Christ, drawn and printed by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). This German painter and printmaker was one of the greatest artistic figures in Germany before the modern era.

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His working life spanned the introduction of Renaissance art into Northern, Gothic Europe and the first years of the Protestant Reformation, and he repeatedly turned to the Passion as a subject for artistic and spiritual exploration. Prints from the Fogg Art Museum’s collections are supplemented by the loan of priceless drawings from the British Museum and from several German museums, to trace Dürer’s exploration of the Passion theme through his life’s work.

This exhibition is oganized by Jordan Kantor, doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. A fully illustrated 2-volume catalogue accompanies the exhibition.