Albrecht Dürer’s grave
Bamberg State Library

Albrecht Dürer’s grave

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Bamberg State Library

Heideloff drew a view of Dürer’s grave at Johannis-Kirchhof in Nuremberg in 1824. Geißler translated the romantic view in which a couple mourning the tomb of the Franconian painter prince in the moonlight into the technique of etching. This was used to illustrate a description of the Dürer tomb in "W. G. Becker’s paperback for convivial pleasure "published in Leipzig in 1825.

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