Hans Baldung

(1484–1545) konstnär

Hans Baldung (Germany, 1484–1545) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Hans Baldung belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Hans Baldung was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd and died in Strasbourg. Hans Baldung studied under Albrecht Dürer. Hans Baldung worked in Nuremberg, Strasbourg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Halle (Saale). Wikidata associates Hans Baldung with German Renaissance.

The best-known works include ‘Adam and Eve’, ‘The Ages and Death’, and ‘Eve, the Serpent and Death’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and religious painting. The catalogue has 163 works by Hans Baldung with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1600. Works by Hans Baldung are held by several collections, among them Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, Gemäldegalerie, and Bavarian State Painting Collections. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Martin Schaffner, Leonhard Beck, Conrat Meit, Chen Shun, and Simon Bening.

• The Renaissance
• The Ages and Death
• The Seven Ages of Woman
• High altar of Freiburg Minster
• The Trinity and Mystic Pietà
• Eve, the Serpent and Death
• Adam and Eve
• Portrait of a Man
• Heracles and Antaeus
• Death and the Maiden (Baldung)