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Hans Baldung, called Grien

1484-1545

Germany

Northern Renaissance

Hans Baldung, called Grien Biography

Hans Baldung, born in 1484/85 in Gmünd (Schwabia), German painter and engraver, the most gifted of Dürer’s pupils, worked in Nürnberg in 1503-07. Since 1509 till the end of his life he lived in Strasbourg, save for 1512-1516, when he painted the grandiose altar for the local cathedral in Freiburg. In his style, Baldung was influenced by the great masters of the German Renaissance, first of all by Dürer, but also by Cranach the Elder and partly by Grünewald and Altdorfer. Interest to antique mythology, typical for his time, is combined in his art with mystique and pessimism.

• The Three Kings Altarpiece.
  1507. Central panel and interior wings: St. George. More. The Adoration of the Magi. More. St. Maurice. More. Exterior wings: St. Catherine of Alexandria. More. St. Agnes. More. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
• The Nativity.
  1510. Tempera on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Read Note.
• The Nativity. Detail.
  1510. Tempera on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Read Note.
• The Nativity. Detail.
  1510. Tempera on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Read Note.
• The Three Ages And Death.
  c.1510. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
• Death And The Maiden.
  c.1510. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
• The Crucifixion.
  1512. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
• Ludwig, Count Von Löwenstein.
  1513. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
• The Lamentation.
  c.1515. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
• Girl And Death.
  1517. Tempera on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• The Nativity.
  1520. Oil on wood. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany. Read Note.
• Portrait Of A Lady.
  1530. Oil on wood. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland.
• Pyramis And Thisbe.
  c.1530. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
• Virgin And Child.
  c.1539-40. Oil on wood. Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
• Woman And Death.
  Tempera on wood. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• The Knight, The Young Girl, And Death.
  c. 1505. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France.
• The Bewitched Groom.
  c.1544. Woodcut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hans Baldung Grien: Prints and Drawings by James H. and Shestack, Alan Marrow (Editor). University of Chicago Press. 1981

Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner. University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Hans Baldung Grien - Prints and Drawings. Yale Univ Art Gallery, 1995.

Hans Baldung Grien: Handzeichn., Druckgraphik by Hans Baldung. S?dwest-Verlag, 1978.