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Art by Hans Baldung

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Art by Hans Baldung

Art by Hans Baldung
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Hans Baldung known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1480 - 1545). German Renaissance artist as painter and printmaker in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.
He was born Hans Baldung at Schwäbisch Gmünd in Swabia, Germany, the son of a lawyer, who moved to Strassburg in 1492. He was the only male member of his family not to attend university; this background was 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.
He joined Dürer\'s Nuremberg workshop in 1503, probably after some 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; 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 Freiburg Cathedral, 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. Baldung died before the year of 1700.

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