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Print, The First Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion)
This is a Print. It was print maker: Albrecht Dürer. It is dated before 1521 and we acquired it in 1944. Its medium is woodcut on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
INT:
Despite comparisons to Leonardo da Vinci
for his intellectual curiosity, Albrecht Dürer
was less motivated by the terrestrial world
than by a spiritual exploration of the human
soul. Some art historians theorize that Dürer’s
cord patterns represented a very personal
inquiry into the infinite knot of birth, death,
and rebirth. (IDEO)
Wall label from exhibition, “IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection,” Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Print, The Third Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion)
- woodcut on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1944-37-1-b
- Print, The Sixth Knot, from Dürer's Six Knots
- woodcut on cream laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1946-34-1
- Cut Paper, Noah's Ark
- cut black paper.
- This acquisition was made possible through the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
- 1985-22-1
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- Gift of Cappellini.
- 2008-23-1
- Print, Adam and Eve
- engraving on cream laid paper.
- Gift of Mrs. Leo Wallerstein.
- 1961-88-1
- Print, Brodeur, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1763
- engraving on white paper.
- Gift of Mrs. George A. Kubler.
- 1949-152-189
Its dimensions are
27.4 x 21.3 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Print, The First Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion); Print Maker: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528); Germany; woodcut on off-white laid paper; 27.4 x 21.3 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1944-37-1-a
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Making Design and IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection.
