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Durer traveled regularly during his life and although he visited all of Europe, it was his two visits to Italy that most influenced his future works
Through his trips to Italy (1495 and 1505) he was exposed to the works of great artists such as Antonio Pollaiuolo, Mantegna and Lorenzo di Credi, among others. D
He also experienced Nikolaus Gerhaert's sculptures whilst in France

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Durer's earliest influences were his father (Albrecht Durer senior), who was a goldsmith, and his godfather Anton Koberger, who became a painter. Under his father's influence he learnt about mathematics but his talent for drawing meant that he progressed into painting.
He developed his skills during an apprenticeship with well-known painter and woodcutter Michael Wolgemut at the age of 15.
Durer had a childhood friend called Willibald Pirckheimer whom he consulted on many of his works throughout his career and from him he learned a great deal about the world.

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he also started to combine watercolors and bodycolors, as seen in the Young Hare before heading back to Italy and working with linen and tempera. His altarpieces and portraits from this era clearly demonstrate the influence of Italian art as well as his Germanic roots.

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Many of Durer's beautiful and extravagant pieces of work were asked and paid for by the noble and wealthy citizens of the northern part of Nuremberg.

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His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium. Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance

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Dürer’s talent, ambition, and sharp, wide-ranging intellect earned him the attention and friendship of some of the most prominent figures in German society. He became official court artist to

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More than any other northern European artist, Dürer was interested in the artistic practices and theoretical interests of Italy. He visited the country twice, from 1494 to 1495 and again from 1505 to 1507, engaging firsthand some of the great works of the Italian Renaissance

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An extremely gifted German artist of the Renaissance period, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was born in the city of Nuremberg, one of the strongest artistic and commercial places in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.