Alibreht Dyurer was a German painter and graph born on May 21, 1471 in Nyurnberge, Germany to a jeweller father. He showed an early interest in painting despite his father wanting him to join the family jewelry business. Dyurer received training as an apprentice under several masters between 1490-1494 before returning to Nyurnberge, where he married and had a successful career as a painter. He worked as a painter for most of his life and was preparing a theoretical treatise on proportion at the time of his death on April 6, 1528 in Nyurnberge.