Portrait of Hans Tucher

This 1499 portrait of Hans Tucher, in Schloss Weimar, is part of a pair with the portrait of his wife Elspeth. The Tucher family were prominent Nuremberg patricians, and Dürer's double portraits document the social elite of his home city at the height of its prosperity Albrecht Dürer brought Italian Renaissance ideas north, combining German Gothic tradition with classical proportions to become the dominant artist in the German-speaking world Portraiture flourished during the Renaissance as huma

The sitter is placed against a curtained background with a landscape view, combining interior portraiture with the window-vista convention. Dürer's precise linear technique captures every detail of the sitter's features and costume.