Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity
In 1511 Dürer dated the Adoration of the Holy Trinity for Matthäus Landauer’s Zwölfbrüderhaus. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.
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In 1511 Dürer dated the Adoration of the Holy Trinity for Matthäus Landauer’s Zwölfbrüderhaus. The dated almshouse altarpiece is not the Life of the Virgin woodcut book of the same year. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He painted the All Saints panel for Matthäus Landauer’s Twelve Brothers House. The institution paid; later Vienna custody is not the painting act. A painted altar is not a woodcut book. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.
Context
An All Saints vision is not a unique poor-relief series. Later Vienna hanging is not 1511. Named others on the file: Matthäus Landauer as patron, the Twelve Brothers as institutional recipient, and unnamed assistants share the commission. The public setting is the file around 1511-01-15. The instrument stays Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity. The setting of Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity is the public file around 1511-01-15. Driver social-cohesion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Complex shared commission. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated altarpiece for a Nuremberg almshouse put a public All Saints vision into a charitable chapel. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Albrecht Dürer
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
He painted the All Saints panel for Matthäus Landauer’s Twelve Brothers House. The institution paid; later Vienna custody is not the painting act.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactDürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 15 January 1511 · verified
A dated altarpiece for a Nuremberg almshouse put a public All Saints vision into a charitable chapel.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Kunsthistorisches Museum — Dürer, Adoration of the Trinity heritageKunsthistorisches Museum Wien · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Albrecht DürerEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
KHM heritage and Britannica independently date the 1511 Landauer Trinity as a Nuremberg almshouse panel. Official: Kunsthistorisches Museum — Dürer, Adoration of the Trinity heritage (https://www.khm.at/ (opens in a new tab); Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Landauer Altar 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Kunsthistorisches Museum — Dürer, Adoration of the Trinity heritage (https://www.khm.at/ (opens in a new tab); Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Landauer Altar 1511 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: 1511 Landauer Altar. Not established: that later Vienna custody is his act. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity under 1511-01-15.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. A painted altar is not a woodcut book. Mixed effects of Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1511-01-15 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAlbrecht Dürer
- contributed toFactDürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity
- strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Dürer paints the Landauer Altar Adoration of the Trinity. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-landauer-trinity-1511
https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-landauer-trinity-1511
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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