Summary
Known as Grien or Grun, from his fondness for brilliant green, both in his own costume and in his pictures. Hans Baldung was a vigorous and distinguished painter, engraver, and draughtsman on wood, b. at Gmund, Swabia, about 1476; d. at Strasburg, 1545. Baldung was a lifelong friend of Durer and received a lock of the latter's hair when he died. Durer influenced Baldung's work, as did Matthaeus Grunewald and Martin Schongauer. His portraits, when unsigned, have at times passed as the work of that greater master, Durer. An exceptional draughtsman and a good colourist, Baldung's work is marked by an original and fertile imagination. He is thought to have worked with Durer at Nuremberg for two years, assisting him and painting under his eye the copies of Adam and Eve now in the Pitti Gallery at Florence. He became a citizen of Strasburg in 1509, and was made senator the year of his death.
Baldung spent seven years at Freiburg in the Breisgau, where, in a monastery, is found his most famous work, an altar piece, the central portion showing The Coronation of the Virgin, the wings bearing on the inside the Apostles and on the outside four scenes from the life of Our Lady. Two altar pieces in the Convent of Lichenthal, near Baden-Baden, are assumed to be his earliest works. Baldung's paintings are chiefly in public galleries at Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Prague, Darmstadt, Basle, Karlsrughe, Aschaffenburg, and Frankfort. In the Berlin Museum are "Christ on the Cross" (two pictures), a triptych Adoration of the Kings, with saints on the interior and exterior of the wings, and The Stoning of Saint Stephen; in the Munich Pinakothek, the portrait of his friend, Margrave Phillipp Christoph of Baden; at Vienna in the Museum, the portrait of a Young Man, and a portrait of himself in green; in the Academy, a Holy Family; in the Liechtenstein Gallery, The Ages of Man in Six Female Figures, and a Madonna; in the Schonborn Gallery, Adam and Eve. [Adapted from Catholic Encyclopedia (1907)]Books
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