Alliance Coat of Arms of the Dürer and Holper Families

The picture shows the rear view of the Portrait of Albrecht D�rer the Elder.

The painted variant on the alliance coat of arms of the D�rer and Holper families, a so-called speaking coat of arms, is also depicted in a woodcut dating from 1523. It forms the back side of D�rer’s first portrait of his father in 1490. The family’s coat of arms depicts an open barn door on the left, which was presumably a symbol of the family name. The name means the same as “T�rer,” the German translation of “Ajto” (door), their place of origin Ajtos near Gyula, the capital of the B�k�s district.