Albrecht Durer Stag Beetle (1505)
Albrecht Durer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.
This watercolor drawing by Albrecht Durer depicts a stag beetle, and ist one of the most influential and most copied nature studies.
