Vladimir Szabo (1905 – 1991)
ca. 1958
color etching on paper
25/150
Fairchild Endowment Fund purchase
2009.20.4
Inspired by Albrecht Dürer, Self Portrait, 1498
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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In this busy self-portrait the Hungarian artist Vladimir Szabo surrounds himself with creations by the Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. At the center, Szabo compares his mirror image with one of the many self-portraits painted by Dürer. Among the panoply of surrounding works by the Old Master we find the rider on horseback (an engraving known as Knight, Death and the Devil); the portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (wearing a hat, at top); Dürer’s friend, the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer (facing out at bottom left); and an engraving known as The Four Witches at top left.