In the history of art, Hans Baldung Grien is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Hans Baldung Grien as German painter and printmaker (1484–1545).
Hans Baldung Grien was born at Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1484. His recorded nationality is Germany.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, illustrator and engraver.
His recorded movement is german renaissance.
Among his best-known works are Adam and Eve, The Ages and Death and Eve, the Serpent and Death. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Germany shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Hans Baldung Grien died in 1545, aged 61. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Adam and Eve
- Notable work: The Ages and Death
- Notable work: Eve, the Serpent and Death
- Movement: German Renaissance
