Showing posts with label Albrecht Durer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albrecht Durer. Show all posts

Monday, 6 October 2025

North Korean stamp (with Dürer dandelion)


I have a stamp from North Korea in the Dandelion Archive. Issued in 1979 it is to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1578)*  
The stamp has the title of the artwork as 'A Big Tuft of Grass' but it's also known as 'Large Piece of Turf". It was painted by Dürer in 1503 and the original is held in the Albertina in Vienna. Amongst the grasses, yarrow and plantain are some dandelions either just opening out, or they could be closing after flowering (one or the other). Beautiful!

*I can't quite get that to add up, but whatever.

Thursday, 30 April 2020

Albrecht Dürer's Dandelion


I visited Vienna in November last year and while wandering around the city I saw this building wrap showing perhaps one of the most famous dandelions in the art world. Advertising an exhibition at the Albertina Museum it shows Albrecht Dürer's watercolour The Great Piece of Turf painted in 1503.  With so many amazing museums in Vienna, I didn't go to the Albertina this time (I have been years ago and saw the painting then), but i was very glad to see it reproduced so big for all to enjoy. 
I wonder what they did with the building wrap? That would be a great addition to the Dandelion Archive...