[5] Sullivan points out that in early 1500's Germany witch trials and executions were actually relatively uncommon. He first studied in Strasbourg or Swabia around 1499. Starcky Emmanuel, in Dessins de Dürer et de la Renaissance germanique dans les collections publiques parisiennes, LXXXXVIIIe exposition du Cabinet des dessins, cat. Follow. exp. Catalogue Note. In a manuscript, known as the 'Collectanea genealogica', she is quoted as 'Margred Härlerin'. [5][6], At the age of 26, Baldung married Margaretha (née Herlin),[b] with whom he had one child: Margarethe Baldungin.[7]. Hans Baldung, called Grien Biography Hans Baldung, born in 1484/85 in Gmünd (Schwabia), German painter and engraver, the most gifted of Dürer’s pupils, worked in Nürnberg in 1503-07. His style became much more deliberately individual—a tendency art historians used to term "mannerist." [3], Margaret Sullivan, also an art historian, asserts that Baldung's image was not necessarily intended to accurately depict official witch-hunting ideas. Creator: Hans Baldung Grien; Date Created: 1510/1510; Physical Dimensions: h 378mm - w 257mm; External Link: See more details about this work on the Rijksmuseum Website; Medium: paper; Get the app. Stop. The drawing is in private hands and is not in Koch, Zeichnungen. He is partially covered by a burial shroud, but the spear wound on his side is visible. It was invented earlier in 1508 and had already seen success in the prints of Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Burgkmair. [3] The Malleus maleficarum states that witches are able to create storms and plagues with the help of Satan, citing the punishments inflicted on Job and the Pharaoh's magicians in the time of Moses who were able to recreate three of God's plagues. His patches of wispy hair and rotting skin mock her flowing tresses and supple flesh. Witch's Sabbath Hexensabbat witchcraft witches witch witchery sorcery devil black mass coven broomstick goats folk horror. Scholars are in dispute on whether these witches are meant to be interpreted as humorous exaggeration of witch hunters' beliefs or a startling depiction meant to frighten Baldung's audience. Columbus Centre Series. Throughout his lifetime, he developed a distinctive style, full of colour, expression and imagination. His exact date of birth is unknown. Möhle, “Hans Baldung Grien: Zur Karlsruher Baldung-Ausstellung Sommer 1959,” p. 130. "The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art." [3] In it, the supposed witch confesses that witches kill infants in a way that suggests overlaying or natural causes. Recommended . [3] The husband could testify that he had spent the entire night in bed at his wife's side, but witches' flight made it possible for the supposed witch to leave while the husband shut his eyes, fly away to attend the sabbath, and then come back before the husband awoke. Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more. Hans Baldung Grien The Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist stand in Christ’s red marble tomb supporting his lifeless body. Hans Baldung Grien (1484-1545) The Three Fates: Lachesis, Atropos and Clotho (Bartsch 44; Hollstein 236) woodcut, 1513, on laid paper, a rather dry, later impression, trimmed on or just inside the borderline, a pale stain at lower right, two horizontal printer's creases, generally in good condition; with The Last Judgement (Holl. The plate instead holds two chickens. The Witches (formerly titled The Witches' Sabbath) is a chiaroscuro woodcut by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung. The chiaroscuro woodcut was a printmaking technique where a color woodblock was used to add tone to the printed image. [3] Baldung, who had an attorney for a father and a professor for a brother, likely had access to the Malleaus maleficarum through his family members. Surrounded by human bones and animal familiars, a group of witches engage in naked revelry as they soar through the air and prepare food for the Sabbath. Hans was born in the small free city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (formerly Gmünd in Germany), a free city of the Empire, part of the East Württemberg region in former Swabia, Germany, in the year 1484 or 1485, into a family of intellectuals, academics and professionals, where his father was from and died in Strasbourg in September 1545. '", Sullivan, Margaret A. Bohn, Babette, and Saslow, James M., eds. This print was created in the city of Strasbourg, where Hans Baldung was working. They show little direct Italian influence. [3], The witches in this image are designed to mock the Christian Mass and the Eurcharist. Hans Baldung Grien's work depicting witches was produced in the first half of the 16th century, before witch hunting became a widespread cultural phenomenon in Europe. This name is thought to have come foremost from a preference to the color green: he seems to have worn green clothing. [3] Therefore, flight was a power witches would be able to use due to their connection with the devil. [1] Witches were almost unknown by the public at large before the year 1500. Witches' Sabbath By Hans Baldung Grien; Hans Baldung Grien Witches' Sabbath By Hans Baldung Grien. Hans Baldung Grien by MARGARET A. SULLIVAN This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Dfirer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as the Malleus maleficiarum. Baldung partook in this culture, producing not only many works depicting Strasbourg humanists and scenes from ancient art and literature, but what an earlier literature on the artist described as his satirical take on his depiction of witches. He became a celebrity of the town, and received many important commissions. [3] Long hair could also hide witch's marks or charms, to this end inquisitors would often order that a suspected witch's body be shaved of all hair preceding a trial. This is the first woodcut produced by Baldung after leaving the studio of his mentor, Albrecht Dürer, and one of the first Renaissance images to depict both witches that fly and a Witches' Sabbath. 144 notes. Dates: 1484/1485 - 1545: Roles: Artist: Nationality: German: Surrounded by physicians, lawyers, and scholars, Hans Baldung Grien was one of the first German artists from a learned family. There is special force in the "Death and the Maiden" panel of 1517 (Basel), in the "Weather Witches" (Frankfurt), in the monumental panels of "Adam" and "Eve" (Madrid), and in his many powerful portraits. Art historian Jane Schyler asserts that The Witches illustrates the beliefs of church inquisitors, and that its imagery is directly informed by the writings of the Malleus maleficarum. Hans Baldung Grien (1484/5 - 1545) Baldung Grien was a 16th-century German artist who was active as a painter, printmaker and stained-glass designer. Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-hunt. Sep 30, 2013 - Urs Graf, Kopie nach Hans Baldung Grien - Hexensabbat [1514] Albertina scan The Virgin mourns her son, wiping her eyes with her veil. In a later trip to the Netherlands in 1521 Dürer's account book records that he took with him and sold prints by Baldung. ), exh. The skeletal figure gently holds her head, a gesture that belies the finality of his impending bite. Enter your search terms. It was probably executed for Hans Bock von Gerstheim (d. Oct. 12, 1542), who, to my knowledge, was the only Bock named “Johann” during this period. [14] Here in painted an eleven-panel altarpiece for the Freiburg Cathedral, still intact today, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin, including, The Annunciation, The Visitation, The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt, The Crucifixion, Four Saints and The Donators. In 1509, when Baldung's time in Nuremberg was complete, he moved back to Strasbourg and became a citizen there. "The Martyrdom of St Sebastian and the Epiphany" (now Berlin, 1507), were painted for the market-church of Halle in Saxony.[16]. [1] Most peasants did not know about it, and even among theologians and witch hunters, the Sabbath did not necessarily play a large role in demonology. Abstract This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as the Malleus maleficiarum. Overview / In-depth. [3], Church inquisitors recognized the goat as a form the devil may take, so it's possible that the goat in this image may be the devil in animal form. It has been pointed out that Hans Baldung was the only male member of his family not to receive a … [10], Baldung also regularly incorporated scenes of witches flying in his art, a characteristic that had been contested centuries before his artwork came into being. In this image by Baldung, the witches are using an unguent contained in a jar that will be used for flight. Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was an artist in painting and printmaking, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer, whose art belongs to both German Renaissance and Mannerism. Fribourg-en-Brisgau, Augustinermuseum, 2000-2001, p. 41. This image is an inversion of the Christian Mass. Hans Baldung, called Grien, was most probably born in Schwäbisch Gmünd in southwestern Germany, the site of the family home. Maximiliaan overhandigt brief aan een man Created around … exp. A colored interpretation of Baldung's print. [1] Baldung and Dürer were both involved in humanist circles in Strasbourg, and humanists mostly considered witchcraft as "'lustig,' a matter that was more amusing than serious. Nurse, Julia. He joined in the fashion for chiaroscuro woodcuts, adding a tone block to a woodcut of 1510. Rather than receive the body and blood of Christ, participants instead offered up human flesh to Satan. According to the Malleus maleficarum, loose hair would draw the devil's fascination and distract men during worship. eccentric paintings. [3] The children would also be given to the devil, presumably as a sacrifice. Hans Baldung Grien. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013. Baldung settled eventually in Strasbourg and then to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he executed what is held to be his masterpiece. [1] This new technology allowed for Baldung's scene to be set at night. [16], His works are notable for their individualistic departure from the Renaissance composure of his model, Dürer, for the wild and fantastic strength that some of them display, and for their remarkable themes. [3], "The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien*", "THE "MALLEUS MALEFICARUM" AND BALDUNG'S "WITCHES' SABBATH, "Baldung and the Witches of Freiburg: The Evidence of Images", "A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Witches_(Hans_Baldung)&oldid=989931748, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric (hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism), whilst his ornamental style—profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously "German" strain of contemporary limewood sculptors—is equally distinctive. He probably also got this nickname to distinguish him from at least two other Hanses in Dürer's shop, Hans Schäufelein and Hans Suess von Kulmbach. The following year he married Margarethe Herlin, a local merchant's daughter,[8] joined the guild "Zur Steltz",[3] opened a workshop, and began signing his works with the HGB monogram that he used for the rest of his career. Baldung was born and raised in Schwäbisch Gmünd (Swabian Gmuend), East Wuerttemberg. History Today 48, no. His most characteristic works in this area are small in scale and mostly in the medium of drawing; these include a series of puzzling, often erotic allegories and mythological works executed in quill pen and ink and white body color on primed paper. no. [3], It is important to note that the witches in Baldung's image are not actually at a Sabbath. The middle witch holds aloft the paten, a plate which would hold the sacramental bread. Although originally considered an impossibility, witches' flight was essential to making the Witches' Sabbath and the subsequent witch hunts possible. 11-jul-2016 - Explora el tablero "Hans Baldung Grien" de Abraham T. Nava, que 119 personas siguen en Pinterest. This woodcut depicts witches preparing to travel to a Witches' Sabbath by using flying ointment. Cohn, Norman. In addition to traditional religious subjects, Baldung was concerned during these years with the profane theme of the imminence of death and with scenes of sorcery and witchcraft. Most famously, he depicted witches, also a local interest: Strasbourg's humanists studied witchcraft and its bishop was charged with finding and prosecuting witches. Paulus met zwaard From same collection. There is a lack of feasting and dancing as a group, essential elements of a Sabbath. A Witches' Sabbath (also called Witches' Sabbat) was an event where witches would assemble to worship the devil. [3] The witch sitting on the left side of the image holds a chalice in her hand. Though Baldung has been commonly called the Correggio of the north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous colours, in which pure black is contrasted with pale yellow, dirty grey, impure red and glowing green. [3] Afterwards the infant's bodies are dug up so that they can be boiled in a cauldron. In A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art, 402-21. Hans Baldung Grien. He stayed in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1513–1516 where he made, among other things, the High altar of the Freiburg Münster [de].[9]. Follow. [1] It's plausible that Baldung was inspired to create this by the publication of Lucan's De Bello Civili in Strasbourg the year before, which features the witch Erichtho. Martin, Thomas. Nevertheless, the artist is less renowned than other masters of his generation, such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Baldung Grien. MSRP: $279.00 $28.75 (You save $250.25) Sale ends in Hours. His paintings are less important than his prints. ProQuest Ebook Central. prints not for book illustration) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number. [3] The Sabbath contains elements of bestiality and adultery. Hans Baldung Grien was Albrecht Dürer's foremost pupil. [1] Although the Sabbath was first mentioned in the Malleus maleficarum and would later become an essential component of many witch trials, in Strasbourg at this time the legitimacy of the Sabbath's existence was in dispute.[1]. [16], The Virgin as Queen of Heaven with the Christ Child in her arms, John of Patmos Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1510, 16th century German painter and printmaker. [3] This bread would be converted to the Body of Christ during the miracle of transubstantiation. G. von der Osten, Hans Baldung Grien, Gemälde und Dokumente, Berlin 1983, pp. [2] There are two versions of The Witches, one printed with an orange tone-block and another with a gray-tone block. At a later period he had sittings with Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the gallery at Karlsruhe. Hans Baldung Grien. [3] Two of the witches sitting on the ground have their legs spread out, and the witch riding a goat poses in such a way that the pitchfork emerges from between her legs, suggesting a phallus. Witches' flight was later used in witch trials, specifically to discredit the husband's testimony. [4] The Malleus maleficarum provided biblical evidence for flight as a power of Satan, citing Matthew 4:8 where Satan lifts Jesus onto a mountain top to tempt him into submitting to the devil. ", This page was last edited on 21 November 2020, at 20:43. 333–401, Suzanne Boorsch, Nadine Orenstein "The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden. 3 (1985): 488-510. Gert von der Osten comments on this aspect of "Baldung [treating] his witches humorously, an attitude that reflects the dominant viewpoint of the humanists in Strasbourg at this time who viewed witchcraft as 'lustig,' a matter that was more amusing than serious". [3], Witchcraft was believed to specifically come from carnal lust. Söding Ulrich, "Hans Baldung Grien in Freiburg : Themenwahl und Stilentwicklung", in Hans Baldung Grien in Freiburg, cat. Home » Collection » Baldung Grien, Hans. This woodcut depicts witches preparing to travel to a Witches' Sabbath by using flying ointment. The image also contains references to a blasphemy of mass and the witches' libidinous nature. [3], However, Jane Schuyler believes the multiple goats and a cat suggest that the goat is not a devil, but instead that these are animal familiars. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. [10] However, the separation of a satirical tone from deadly serious vilifying intent proves difficult to maintain for Baldung as it is for many other artists, including his rough contemporary Hieronymus Bosch. The number of Hans Baldung's religious works diminished with the Protestant Reformation, which generally repudiated church art as either wasteful or idolatrous. [3] A partially hidden cauldron can be seen behind the middle witch. Sabbaths were generally thought to take place far away from where witches lived. [3] The devil, as a fallen angel, would still have the ability to fly. "Baldung and the Witches of Freiburg: The Evidence of Images", "Washington and Yale. Hans Baldung Grien: Kämpfende Hengste inmitten einer Gruppe von Wildpferden, 1534 . “The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. Hoak, Dale. 581 II), Saint Martin on Horseback (Holl. But earlier, around the same time that he produced an important chiaroscuro woodcut of Adam and Eve, the artist became interested in themes related to death, the supernatural, witchcraft, sorcery, and the relation between the sexes. Flying was inherently attributed to witches by those who believed in the myth of the Sabbath (without their ability to fly, the myth fragmented), such as Baldung, which he depicted in works like "Witches Preparing for the Sabbath Flight" (1514). Baldung's prints, though Düreresque, are very individual in style, and often in subject. [10] On the other hand, through his family, Baldung stood as closer to the leading intellectuals of the day than any of his contemporaries, and could draw on a burgeoning literature on witchcraft, as well as on developing juridical and forensic strategies for witch-hunting. [3], Various bones surround the witches, including a human skull and a horse's skull. Sale ends in Minutes. [3] It was also thought that the witches would perform these sexual acts in front of their children. These depictions were a large part of the artist's greater body of work containing several renowned pieces of the Virgin. Baldung's fascination with witchcraft began early, with his first chiaroscuro print (1510) lasted to the end of his career. [13], Throughout his life, Baldung painted numerous portraits, known for their sharp characterizations. Sale ends in. Ver más ideas sobre Renacimiento, Durero, Arte. [3] The bones suggest cannibalism and infanticide, both referenced in Question XI of the first part of the Malleus maleficarum. [3] Several of Baldung's other works that involve witches or witch-like figures do feature children. The pot containing a flying potion and uneaten food also suggest they are carrying food to a larger gathering. Hans Baldung Grien", "The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien", "Verzeichniss der Gemälde des Hans Baldung Gen. 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[3] If true, then this bishop would be the only male in this image, excluding the animals. Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85-11545) and his Circle Hans Baldung Grien received his education with Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg, where he gained his surname Grien, meaning „The Green" (presumably because he mainly wore green). [4] Witches' flight was also dismissed as fantasy by Alphonso de Spina in Fortalicium Fidei, Gianfrancesco Ponzinibio in Tractatus de Lamiis, Jean Bodin in De la demonomanie de les sorciers, and in the speeches of preacher Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg.[4]. This page was last edited on 27 December 2020, at 16:11. Reblog. Because of his young age he was given the nickname Grien (Green). The witches here are preparing a flying potion that will allow them to travel to the Sabbath, a larger gathering of witches. [3] The Malleus also mentions how in Daniel 14:33-36, an angel flew Habakkuk to Babylon from Judea in only a few minutes, carrying the prophet by his hair. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art. Like Dürer and Cranach, Baldung supported the Protestant Reformation. [15], The earliest pictures assigned to him by some are altar-pieces with the monogram H. B. interlaced, and the date of 1496, in the monastery chapel of Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden. This is the first print made by Baldung after becoming a master craftsman and leaving Dürer's workshop, as well as the first to feature his initials. Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school. cat., Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 204, reproduced in colour. [3], Maleficia were unexplained events that were attributed to witchcraft. He perfected his art in Albrecht Dürer's studio in Nuremberg between 1503 and 1507. The idea of witches' flight, sometimes referred to as "transvection," was officially denounced by the Canon Episcopi, a resource for cannon law in the medieval ages that explicitly stated how Satan and witchcraft functioned. 7 (1998): 41. [4] Therefore, in order to attend a Sabbath, witches needed to be able to cross large distances in a short amount of time. The Witches (Hans Baldung) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Witches (formerly titled The Witches' Sabbath) is a chiaroscuro woodcut by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung. In this painting a voluptuous young maiden turns to receive the kiss of her lover, only to discover, to her horror, Death. In the field of painting, his Eve, the Serpent and Death (National Gallery of Canada) shows his strengths well. hexensabbat . 53, no. On Dürer's death Baldung was sent a lock of his hair, which suggests a close friendship. The accused witch also mentioned that the boiled solids can be made into an unguent that assists in pleasure and transportation specifically. Hans Baldung, also called Baldung-Grien, (born c. 1484, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg [Germany]—died 1545, Imperial Free City of Strasbourg [now Strasbourg, France]), painter and graphic artist, one of the most outstanding figures in northern Renaissance art. See more ideas about art, renaissance, painting. He trained in Strasbourg and completed his studies in Dürer’s workshop where he is documented around 1503. While Dürer rigorously details his models, Baldung's style differs by focusing more on the personality of the represented character, an abstract conception of the model's state of mind. [2] It is unknown if the 1506 drawing Hexensabbat by Albrecht Altdorfer influenced Baldung's print.[1]. Hans quickly picked up Dürer's influence and style, and they became friends: Baldung seems to have managed Dürer's workshop during the latter's second sojourn in Venice. Hans Baldung was the son of Johann Baldung, an university-educated jurist, having since 1492 the office of legal adviser to the bishop of Strasbourg (Albert of Bavaria), and Margarethe Herlin, daughter of Arbogast Herlin, he was not propertyless, but with unknown occupation,[2] and his family living in this city, Hans made his apprenticeship there, with an artist remained unknown. By contrast, throughout the early sixteenth century, humanism became very popular, and within this movement, Latin literature was valorized, particularly poetry and satire, some of which included views on witches that could be combined with witch lore massively accumulated in works such as the Malleus Maleficarum. Two altar wings (Charles the Great, St. George), Augsburg, State Gallery. He entered Dürer's workshop in Nuremberg in 1503, and was entrusted with the running of it during Dürer's second Venetian trip in 1505-7. [3] The witch in the middle also holds a dirty cloth above her head, referencing both the corporal and altar cloth a priest would use to display the monstrance. Near the end of his Nuremberg years, Grien oversaw the production by Dürer of stained glass, woodcuts and engravings, and therefore developed an affinity for these media and for the Nuremberg master's handing of them. [2][3], Baldung and his mentor Albrecht Dürer created several images throughout their careers that dealt with this theme of witches. [16], He is well known as a portrait painter, his works include historical pictures and portraits; among the latter may be named those of Maximilian I. and Charles V.[14] His bust of Margrave Philip in the Munich Gallery tells us that he was connected with the reigning family of Baden as early as 1514. 4, reproduced plates 4 and 5, and colour plate 1; J. Sander in Albrecht Dürer. [3] According to Jane Schuyler, Baldung's image suggests two instances of maleficia: the bones suggest a murder and the insects and toads in the jar vapors suggest a biblical plague. [3] His uncle, Hieronymus Baldung, was a doctor in medicine, he had a son, Pius Hieronymus, that can be seen as Hans' cousin, who taught law at Freiburg, and became by 1527 chancellor of the Tyrol. His talents were varied, and he produced a g… Hults, Linda C. "Baldung and the Witches of Freiburg: The Evidence of Images.". Throughout his lifetime, he developed a distinctive style, full of colour, expression and imagination. Woodcut from Hans Curjel, Hans Baldung Grien, … Kunst für Alle Art Print/Poster: Hans Baldung-Grien Hexensabbat Picture, Fine Art Poster, 70x100 cm (28x39 inch): Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home Early witch hunters did not believe it possible for witches to fly or levitate. Unfollow. Notable works include Dürer's The Four Witches (1497) and Witch Riding Backwards On A Goat (1500), as well as Baldung's New Year’s Greeting with Three Witches (1514) and The Bewitched Groom (1544).