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5 unusual facts about Hans Baldung


Freiburg Charterhouse

It featured magnificent stained glass windows to designs by the Swabian painter Hans Baldung Grien.

Freiburg Minster

There are two important altars inside the cathedral: the high altar of Hans Baldung, and another altar of Hans Holbein the Younger in a side chapel.

Heinrich Vogtherr

From the Strasbourg artists of that time actually only Hans Baldung, one of the most important painters of the time of Dürer, was considered for any painting jobs (mainly portraits), which is why Vogtherr now found his living mainly in the production of book illustrations.

The Three Ages of Man and Death

The The Three Ages of Man and Death is a 16th-century painting by Hans Baldung.

Urs Graf

His artistic output, arising from the tradition of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung, includes a wide range of subjects, depicting social, erotic, military, political and criminal images (e.g., Two Prostitutes Beating a Monk), as well as strong religious feelings which emerge in some works.


Eve, the Serpent and Death

Eve, the Serpent and Death (or Eve, the Serpent, and Adam as Death) is a painting by the German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung, housed in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.


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