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Updated: June 21, 2025


After his death, the widow treated his brothers and sisters generously, giving them properties of Durer's and being of much help to them. During the artist's life he and she had travelled everywhere together and had appeared to love each other tenderly; hence we may conclude that the old Pirkheimer was simply a disgruntled, gouty old man without a good word for anybody.

Pirkheimer was a learned man, and cheerful withal, as his facetious bookLaus Podagræ,” or thePraise of the Gout,” can testify.

It may be that Duerer then met for the first time too the Imperial architect, Johannes Tscherte, for whom he afterwards drew two armillary spheres, to take the place of those on which he had cast ridicule; for Pirkheimer wrote to Tscherte: "I wish you could have heard how Albert Duerer spoke to me about your plate, in which there is not one good stroke, and laughed at me.

"I will have no other," he shouted; "I should know it in a thousand!" "Very well." Her voice was as tranquil as her face. "Shall I have it sent to the house of the honored Herr Pirkheimer?" He glared at her. "I take it with me," he said. "I do not trust it out of sight." She bowed in acquiescence.

But before I could speak a single word Cousin Maud, with whom were the Magister and old Pirkheimer the member of council, cried out as soon as she saw me: "Only imagine, Margery, what rare tidings his Excellency has brought us."

Pirkheimer was rich and influential, and at his house Dürer saw many eminent men, artists, scholars, reformers, and theologians, and in their society he gained much broader knowledge of the world, while he received the respect which was due to his genius and character. Dürer's health was not good, and his continual work proved more than he could bear.

The bearers of this letter will be able to acquaint you with everything. They are very good men and most sincere Christians. I commend, them to you and my friend Pirkheimer as if they were myself; for they, themselves the best of men, merit the highest recommendation to the best of men. Farewell, dearest Albrecht.

There are the Middle Ages in full force. But had these Germans of the days of Luther really no thought beyond their own times and their own country? Had they really no knowledge of the antique? Not so; they had heard from their learned men, from Willibald Pirkheimer and Ulrich von Hutten, that the world had once been peopled with naked gods and goddesses.

On the other hand, Pirkheimer's words probably had some slight basis; and as Duerer's sickness increased upon him, while at the same time he applied himself less and less to making money, the anxious Frau may have become fretful or even nagging at times; and Pirkheimer, whose companionship was probably a cause of extravagances to Duerer, may have been scolded by Agnes, or heard his friend excuse himself from taking part in some convivial meeting, on the plea that his wife found he was spending out of proportion to his takings at the moment.

Duerer was touched with this spirit; we see it in his fine clothes, in his collector's rapacity, above all in his letters to his friend Pirkheimer a man more typical of that Rabelaisian age than Duerer and Michael Angelo, who were both of them not only modern men but men conservative of the best that had been men in travail for the future, absorbed by the responsibility of those who create.

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