Albrecht Altdorfer
Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 - February 12, 1538) was a painter, the leader of the Danubian School in southern Germany, and a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer.
He was a landscape painter of religious and mythological representations; most famously also for painting landscapes for their beauty and not as illustrating any story or parable, perhaps the first "pure" landscape painter.
See also: Early Renaissance painting