✪ Albrecht Altdorfer.

Look upon his works, ye mighty and despair!

From 1480 until 1538 Germany was home to a man so visionary that his feet probably rarely hit its soil. Albrecht Altdorfer was by choice of topics and his radiant drawing-hand, the Vincent Van Gogh of his age. With the same out-of-sync rhythm, he rendered a strange vision of the world that must make him one of Europe's greats.

Just see the face of this man:



Or this landscape:


The fact that these two masters have never really been linked is to me an art-historic enigma, which could be resolved by bringing Altdorfer to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.