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Artist

Hans Baldung Grien

Year
Schwäbisch Gmünd 1484 - 1545 Strasbourg
Price range
1,000,000 – 3,000,000 USD +
Hans Baldung Grien is one of a small group of German Renaissance artists to establish himself as a master of international repute. His sensual Madonnas, lustful witches and macabre scenes show a bizarre originality unmatched in Renaissance Europe.

Hans Baldung, eventually known as Hans Baldung Grien, is one of a small group of German Renaissance artists to establish himself as a master of international repute, along with Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480–1538) and Mattias Grünewald (1470–1528). Trained in Strasbourg, Baldung entered the workshop of Dürer around 1503 and most likely took charge of the Nuremberg studio during Dürer’s second sojourn in Italy between 1505-07. The two artists remained close collaborators and friends until Dürer’s death, after which he left Baldung a lock of hair as a gift. After working on a major commission in Freiburg im Breisgau between 1512-17, Baldung settled back in Strasbourg where he remained until his death, taking commissions from both Catholic and Protestant patrons as the Reformation erupted.

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Selected artworks
Market

Top 3 auction prices

3,296,287 $
2012
3,712,000 $
2007
3,781,568 $
2018

Details

The sales are: Sotheby’s London – 4 Jul 2018 lot 6 (2,113,250 GBP), Christie’s New York – 25 Jan 2007 lot 6 (this is a work on paper), and Sotheby’s London 4 Jul 2018 lot 00010 (2,860,000 GBP). Updated 19th March 2024.
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Notable exhibitions

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Hans Baldung Grien: Sacred / Profane, 30 November 2019 – 8 March 2020. Curated by Holger Jacob-Friesen.

Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Hans Baldung Grien, 4 July – 27 September 1959. Curated by Jan Lauts and Carl Koch.

 

Books on Hans Baldung Grien

Holger Jacob-Friesen, ed., Hans Baldung Grien – heilig | unheilig, exh. cat., Berlin, 2019.

Julia Carrasco, Der Sündenfall im Werk von Hans Baldung Grien : Ikonographie und Kontext, Petersburg, 2019.

Joseph Leo Koerner, The moment of self-portraiture in German renaissance art, Chicago, 1993.

Gert von der Osten, Hans Baldung Grien, Gemälde und Dokumente, Berlin, 1983.

Karel van Mander, The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, 1603/4, trans. Hessel Miedema, Doornspijk, 1994.

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