22/05/2025
Artist walks in the footsteps of Albrecht Dürer
On his first trip to Italy, Albrecht Dürer, who lived and worked in Nuremberg, traveled in 1494/1495 to a considerable part via the succession roads of the Via Claudia Augusta to Venice. During his trip he also painted, e.g. B. the picture below of Trento. So Dürer did what we mean, among other things, when we talk about the cultural axis Via Claudia Augusta. He traveled the Via Claudia Augusta, met people there and inspired them, but was also inspired by the regions, their people and experience with them. Dürer was originally from Hungary. The Hungarian-born artist Bogi Nagy from Nuremberg is now imitating him and hikes from Nureberg to Donauwörth, on the hiking trail Via Claudia Augusta to Schongau. Then she - like Albrecht Dürfer - does not follow the "Upper Way", as the Via Claudia Augusta was called in the Middle Ages, but the "Lower Way" via Garmisch, Innsbruck and Brennerpass to Bozen, where she meets the Via Claudi Augusta again. In the south of South Tyrol and north of Trentino, the Via Claudia Augusta hiking route is identical to the hiking trail dedicated to Dürer and bears its name, Dürerweg. Eventually, we continue through the Valsugana, the Feltrino and through the Alta Marca to the Venice Lagoon, where on the mainland the Roman Adriatic Harbor was located and today the Venice Lagoon is located, where the population fled during the migration period. The artist first collects a lot of impressions and wants to process them on the go and afterwards in different forms, as a book, as a movie, as pictures...
