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GRUN
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HANS BALDUNG (c
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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
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The earliest pictures assigned to him are altarpieces with the See also:monogram H
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B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery See also:chapel of Lichtenthal near See also:Baden
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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
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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:
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)
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But Griin's prints, though Dureresque, are far below Durer, and his paintings are below his prints
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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
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No trace is apparent of any feeling for See also:atmosphere or See also:light and shade
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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
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Flesh is a See also:mere glaze under which the features are indicated by lines
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His See also:works are mainly interesting because of the See also:wild and fantastic strength which some of them display
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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
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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
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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: 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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