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Hans Baldung Grien
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1484/1485- Strasbourg, 1545
Baldung Grien was a sixteenth-century German artist who worked as a painter, printmaker and designer of stained glass. Trained in Strasbourg, he completed his training in Albrecht Dürer's studio where he is documented around 1503. His nickname of Grien (meaning green in old German) derives from his fondness for this colour when he was young. When Dürer made his second trip to Italy between 1505 and 1507, Baldung Grien, who was his most outstanding pupil, took over the running of the Nuremberg studio. In 1509 he is again documented in Strasbourg where he was made a citizen, while between 1512 and 1517 he is recorded in Freiburg im Breisgau working on the most important commission of his career, the decoration of the high altar of the Cathedral in which he painted a Coronation of the Virgin as the central subject. This altarpiece is considered one of his masterpieces. Baldung was a prolific artist, painting religious works, portraits, mythological subjects and allegories. The most important part of his oeuvre is the group of female nudes of erotic mood whose subject is related to the idea of death. Among his best works are The Three Ages of Man Death in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, The Three Graces and The Ages and Death, both in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. His paintings and drawings show the influence of other German Renaissance artists such as Lucas Cranach, Grünewald and Dürer.
FISCHER, O.: Hans Baldung Grien. Munich, 1939.
KOCH, C.: "Über drei Bildnisse Baldungs als künstlerische Dokumente von Beginn seines Spätstils"in Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft. V, no. 21, 1951, p. 66.
LÜBBEKE, I.: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Early German Painting. 1350-1550. London, 1991.
OSTEN, G. vonder: Hans Baldung Grien: Gëmalde und Dokumente. Berlin, 1983.
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