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Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1484–1545) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.

Paintings

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Adoration of the Magi

Lamentation of Christ

Christ as the Gardener ( Noli me tangere )

Death and the Maiden ( The death and lust )

The Three Ages and Death

The Youth ( The Three Graces )

The ages and death

Three kings altar : St. George and St. Agnes

Woman with Cat ( Allegory of Music ? )

Woman with mirror and snake (Vanitas ? )

Nativity

Nativity

Hercules and Antaeus

Holy Family outdoors ( Rest on the Flight )

Holy Family in the chamber with five angels

Madonna in the grape arbor

Madonna with the Parrot

Mucius Scaevola before Porsena

Portrait of Count Ludwig zu Löwenstein

Portrait of a Bearded Man

Pyramus and Thisbe

Sebastian Altar: The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Death and woman

Two Witches

Drawings

Veronica from Andlau and nuns

Akelei, Blütenstengel

Akeleistaude

Coat of arms

On the ground, seated , half nude female

On the ground, seated female nude

Adoration of the Magi

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

View of Strasbourg

Hand study

Lamentation of Christ

Blue cornflower, flower stalks

View of a river valley

Castle Weinsberg

Lamentation of Christ

Nativity

Nativity

Christ on the Cross

Christ on the Cross

Christ and Doubting Thomas

Head of Christ

The shot on the dead father , Tondo

The shot on the dead father , Tondo , Detail: The dead and the judge

Death

The drunken Bacchus

Die Deutschordens-Veste Hornbeck am Neckar

Prostitute and lover on a bench

Three castles of Alsace

Three heads in profile

Lovebird

Lovebird , sitting on bar

Fine wine , Tendril

Fine wine , Tendril

Alsatian castle

Alsatian castle ( Dabo ? )

Beheading of St. Barbara

Eve

Standard-bearer

Coat of arms

Fußstudien

Gamba , with bow

Gebirge über Ebene

Gehölz

Hand study

Hand study

Hand study

Hand study

Hand study

Hercules as the winner over Antaeus

Hercules at Omphale at the distaff

Hercules with bow

Witches Sabbath I

Witches Sabbath II

St. Bartholomew

St. Christopher

St. Christopher

St. Jude Thaddeus

St. Catherine in the landscape

St. Nicholas

.St. Sebastian

Hl. Sippe, Szene: Anna selbdritt mit Joachim und Joseph

Young female figure playing lute

Centaur with a boy

Small castle

Monastery church Maursmünster , seen from the southwest , detail of a sketch sheet

Head of t Saturn

Head of a Lioness

Head of an old man

Head of an old man with beard

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Life

The son of a lawyer, he was born Hans Baldung at Schwäbisch Gmünd in Swabia, Germany and moved to Strassburg (now Strasbourg) in 1484. He was the only male member of his family not to attend university, a background unusual for an artist at the time. His uncle became a doctor to the Emperor. He spent the greater part of his life at Strassburg and Freiburg im Breisgau. Grien joined Dürer's Nuremberg workshop in 1503, likely following initial training in Strassburg, and stayed until 1507. He seems to have been left in charge of the workshop during Dürer's second trip to Italy. It is presumed that he acquired his nickname of "Grien" (meaning "green") in Nuremberg; the workshop seems to have had three Hanses in it at one point. He later included it in his monogram, and it has also been suggested that it came from "grienhals", a German word for witch. In his later trip to the Netherlands in 1521 Dürer's diary shows that he took with him and sold prints by Baldung. On Dürer's death Baldung was sent a lock of his hair, which suggests a close friendship.

In 1509 Baldung purchased a citizenship of the city of Strassburg (then a German city, now in France), and lived there till 1513. He then moved to Freiburg im Breisgau after being contacted to paint a large altarpiece for the Freiburg Münster, which he finished in 1516 (still in situ). He returned to Strassburg in 1517, and died as a member of the town council in 1545. He had married Margarethe Herlin, from a prominent family in the city, and owned a number of properties.

Work

The earliest pictures assigned to him by some are altar-pieces with the monogram H. B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery chapel of Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden. Another early work is a portrait of the emperor Maximilian, drawn in 1501 on a leaf of a sketch-book now in the print-room at Karlsruhe. "The Martyrdom of St Sebastian and the Epiphany" (now Berlin, 1507), were painted for the market-church of Halle in Saxony.

Baldung's prints, though Düreresque, are very individual in style, and often in subject. They show little direct Italian influence. His paintings are less important than his prints. He worked mainly in woodcut, although he made six engravings, one very fine. He joined in the fashion for chiaroscuro woodcuts, adding a tone block to a woodcut of 1510. Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time; his "single-leaf" woodcuts (ie prints not for book illustration) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.

He was extremely interested in witches and made many images of them in different media, including several very beautiful drawings finished with bodycolour, which are more erotic than his treatments in other techniques.
Witch and Dragon. Drawing with bodycolour (b/w repro)

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric (hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism), whilst his ornamental style—profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously "German" strain of contemporary limewood sculptors—is equally distinctive. Though Baldung has been commonly called the Correggio of the north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous colours, in which pure black is contrasted with pale yellow, dirty grey, impure red and glowing green. Flesh is a mere glaze under which the features are indicated by lines. (1911)

His works are notable for their individualistic departure from the Renaissance composure of his model, Dürer, for the wild and fantastic strength that some of them display, and for their remarkable themes. In the field of painting, his Eve, the Serpent and Death (National Museum of Canada) shows his strengths well. There is special force in the "Death and the Maiden" panel of 1517 (Basel), in the "Weather Witches" (Frankfurt), in the monumental panels of "Adam" and "Eve" (Madrid), and in his many powerful portraits. Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

As a portrait painter he is well known. He drew Charles V, as well as Maximilian; and his bust of Margrave Philip in the Munich Gallery tells us that he was connected with the reigning family of Baden as early as 1514. At a later period he had sittings with Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the gallery at Karlsruhe. Like Dürer and Cranach, Baldung supported the Protestant Reformation. He was present at the diet of Augsburg in 1518, and one of his woodcuts represents Luther in quasi-saintly guise, under the protection of (or being inspired by) the Holy Spirit, which hovers over him in the shape of a dove.

References


This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Grün". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Gron_Hans_Baldung.

* Bartrum,Giulia; German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550; British Museum Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7141-2604-7
* Koerner, Joseph; The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art; University of Chicago Press, 1993, ISBN 10: 0226449998

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