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Matthias Grünewald

German Renaissance painter (c.1470-1528)

"Grünewald" redirects here. For other uses, see Grünewald (disambiguation).

Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 – 31 August 1528; also known as Mathis Gothart Nithart^[1]) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.

Only ten paintings—including several polyptychs—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea on their way to Sweden as war booty. He was obscure until the late nineteenth century, when many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis. His largest and most famous work is the Isenheim Altarpiece created c. 1512 to 1516.

Life

He was recognised in his own lifetime, as shown by his commissions, yet the details of his life are unusually unclear for a painter of his significance at this date. The first source to sketch his biography comes from the German art historia

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“Yearning for biography” – the Elusive Life of Matthias Grünewald

Dürer’s Life and Work. The Object as a Key to the Subject?/Dürers Leben und Werk. Das Objekt als Schlüssel zum Subjekt? 14 Susanne Meurer »Yearning for Biography« The Elusive Life of Mathis Grünewald »It is great [artists]«, Max Friedländer wrote in his discourse on »Art and Connoisseurship,« »about whom we learn at least something regarding their whereabouts and times, [or] their lives and impact, which allows us to construct an ediice of stylistic criticism with the support of biographical scafolding.«1 Although Grünewald is nowhere mentioned by name, Friedländer may well have had the elusive Mathis in mind when he added that »There are, however, cases in which we build without scafolding, in which we knit or crochet, instead of applying embroidery on given fabric.«2 There are plenty of indications that Mathis Grünewald would have been considered a prominent igure by his contemporaries. In addition to serving as court artist to successive electors of Mainz he received a number of large altarpiece commissions both

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Matthias Grünewald

ca. 1480 - 1528

German painter, real name: Mathis Gothard, born in Würzburg, accidentally named Grünewald by a 17th century biographer.

Grünewald was awarded many substantial assignments. Between 1516 – 1525 he was employed by the most important elector of his day, cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg.

Grünewald's style is best described as monumental and realistic with an arresting use of colour and light. Grünewald is likely to have been influenced by the Italian Renaissance but is generally considered as belonging to the late Gothic tradition.

His tour de force remains the Isenheimer Altar, a multitych with mainly biblical tableaux, currently on display in a museum in Colmar.

After Grünewald had been driven from the court by Albrecht, he supported himself for some time by building watermills and fountains. He died in Halle in 1528.

The portrait here shows St Sebastian and is part of the altar but often considered a self-portrait.

work by Matthias Grünewald