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GRUN . HANS BALDUNG (c. 1470-1545), commonly called Grin, a See also:

German painter of the See also:age of See also:Durer, was See also:born at Gm.und in See also:Swabia, and spent the greater See also:part of his See also:life at See also:Strassburg and See also:Freiburg in See also:Breisgau. The earliest pictures assigned to him are altarpieces with the See also:monogram H. B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery See also:chapel of Lichtenthal near See also:Baden. Another See also:early See also:work is a portrait of the See also:emperor See also:Maximilian, See also:drawn in 15ot on a See also:leaf of a See also:sketch-See also:book now in the See also:print-See also:room at Carlsruhe. The "Martyrdom of St See also:Sebastian" and the "See also:Epiphany" (See also:Berlin Museum), fruits of his labour in 1507, were painted for the See also:market-See also:church of See also:Halle in See also:Saxony. In 15o9 Griin See also:purchased the freedom of the See also:city of Strassburg, and resided there till 1513, when he moved to Freiburg in Breisgau. There he began a See also:series of large compositions, which he finished in 1516, and placed on the high See also:altar of the Freiburg See also:cathedral. He purchased anew he freedom of Strassburg in 1517, resided in that city as his See also:domicile, and died a member of its See also:great See also:town See also:council 1545. Though nothing is known of Grin's youth and See also:education, it may be inferred from his See also:style that he was no stranger to the school of which Durer was the See also:chief. Gmtind is but 50 M. distant on either See also:side from See also:Augsburg and See also:Nuremberg.

Grtln's prints were often mistaken for those of Durer; . and Darer himself was well acquainted with Grin's woodcuts and See also:

copper-plates in which he traded during his trip to the Nether-lands (1520). But Griin's prints, though Dureresque, are far below Durer, and his paintings are below his prints. Without See also:absolute correctness as a draughtsman, his conception of human See also:form is often very unpleasant, whilst a questionable See also:taste is shown in See also:ornament equally profuse and " See also:baroque." Nothing is more remarkable in his pictures than the pug-like shape of the faces, unless we except the coarseness of the extremities. No trace is apparent of any feeling for See also:atmosphere or See also:light and shade. Though Grii11 has been commonly called the See also:Correggio of the See also:north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous See also:colours, in which pure See also:black is contrasted with See also:pale yellow, dirty See also:grey, impure red and glowing See also:green. Flesh is a See also:mere glaze under which the features are indicated by lines. His See also:works are mainly interesting because of the See also:wild and fantastic strength which some of them display. We may pass lightly over the " Epiphany " of 1507, the " Crucifixion " of 1512, or the " Stoning of See also:Stephen " of 1522, in the Berlin Museum. There is some force in the " See also:Dance of See also:Death " of 1517, in the museum of See also:Basel, or the "Madonna" of 1530, in the See also:Liechtenstein See also:Gallery at See also:Vienna. Grun's best effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the " See also:Coronation of the Virgin," and the " Twelve Apostles," the " See also:Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and See also:Flight into See also:Egypt," and the " Crucifixion," with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful See also:power which See also:Martin SchOn bequeathed to the Swabian school. As a portrait painter he is well known. He See also:drew the likeness of See also:Charles V., as well as that of Maximilian; and his bust of See also:Margrave See also:Philip in the See also:Munich Gallery tells us that he was connected with the reigning See also:family of Baden as early as 1514.

At a later See also:

period he had sittings from Margrave See also:Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their See also:children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the See also:grand-ducal gallery at Carlsruhe. Like Durer and See also:Cranach, Grun became a hearty supporter of the See also:Reformation. He was See also:present at the See also:diet of Augsburg in 1518, and one of his woodcuts represents See also:Luther under the See also:protection of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost, which hovers over him in the shape of a See also:dove.

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