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.
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.
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