Matthias Grünewald

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Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528) is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. The visionary character of his work, with its expressive colour and line, is in stark contrast to Albrecht Dürer's works.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 See also
4 Gallery
5 External links and references

[edit] Biography

His real name was Mathis Gothart Neithart. A 17th-century writer, Joachim von Sandrart, mistakenly identified him by the name Grünewald; his real name was not discovered till the 1920s. He was born in Würzburg in the 1470s. He served as court painter and hydraulic engineer to two successive archbishops of Mainz, Uriel von Gemmingen and Albrecht von Brandenburg, from about 1510 to 1525. He left this post apparently because of Lutheran sympathies. Grünewald died in Halle in 1528.

The 20th century composer Paul Hindemith based his 1938 opera Mathis der Maler on the life of Grünewald.

[edit] Works

The greatest of his works is the Isenheim Altarpiece, completed 1515, now in the Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar. It contains the Crucifixion, the Temptation of St Anthony, and the Resurrection.

Establishment of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (1517-1519), Freiburg, Augustinermuseum.

[edit] See also

Early Renaissance painting

[edit] Gallery

Isenheim Altarpiece

Isenheim Altarpiece: The Resurrection

Isenheim Altarpiece: predella

[edit] External links and references

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Grünewald paintings at CGFA - http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/grunewal/index.html
Cuttler, Charles D. (1968) Northern Painting from Pucelle to Bruegel. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. ISBN 0-03-072500-3

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Persondata
NAME	Grünewald, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gothart-Nithart, Mathis;Gruenewald, Matthias
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1475 or 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH	Würzburg
DATE OF DEATH	31 August 1528
PLACE OF DEATH	Halle (Saale)