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Matthias Grunewald.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
Little is known about the early life of the sixteenth-century German painter Matthias Grunewald. It is possible that he served his apprenticeship in Augsburg because his early works bear some resemblance to the style of Hans Holbein the Elder; and, unlike his contemporaries Albrecht Durer and Jan Gossaert, there is no evidence that he ever visited Italy. By 1501 Grunewald had established a workshop in Selingenstadt on the Main, southeast of Frankfurt, and his work, mainly religious, was in demand locally as well as farther afield. He was employed by the archbishops of Mainz and Magdeburg, and also possibly undertook some decorative work for the castles of neighboring nobility.
Perhaps his greatest work is the Isenheim Altar, now in the Musee d'Unterlinden in Colmar, France, which, with the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany, has organized complementary exhibitions devoted to Grunewald and ...
- DIETER APPELT.(photographer)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Kuspit, Donald March 1, 2001 700+ words
...John in Lucas Cranach's Crucifixion, 1503, or Mary and Mary Magdalen in the crucifixion scene of Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altar piece, c. 1510-15. Even in such a different image as Otto Dix's 1926 portrait of Ivar von Lucken...
- Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Christensen, Carl C. March 22, 2001 700+ words
...following topics: cultural and theological settings; Matthias Grunewald; Albrecht Durer; Lucas Cranach the Elder; Michelangelo...own. Space permits mention of only a few highlights. Matthias Grunewald, creator of the famous Isenheim altarpiece, emerges...
- Hindemith: Mathis der Maler.(Covent Garden, London, England)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Said, Edward W. June 3, 1996 700+ words
...work's composition. Hindemith was attracted to the figure of Matthias Grunewaid, sixteenth-century painter of the Isenheim altar triptych, partly because of his solitary, somewhat obscure artistic eminence, and partly because Matthias worked during...
- Growing up as a Welsh Alsatian. (History).(Tomi Ungerer)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Bamforth, Iain December 1, 2001 700+ words
...the Lyc6e Bartholdi in Colmar, Ungerer used to shelter from the rain in the cloister, which houses Grunewald's famous Isenheim altar. There are two scenes in the altarpiece to trouble even the most secular of imaginations: his angular, violent crucifixion...
- A wealth of irony in Jasper Johns' art
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times William Wilson November 27, 1988 700+ words
...crossbones, dismembered body parts and art-historical references to Expressionist agony-art from Mathias Grunewald's Isenheim Altar to Edvard Munch's "Between the Clock and the Bed" with asides to Picasso and Van Gogh. A work like the four-part...
- Thomas Kling. Auswertung der Flugdaten.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Berwald, Olaf May 1, 2006 700+ words
...Kling contracted lung cancer), into an inquiry into the possibility of the aesthetic praxis of breathing. Grunewald's "Isenheim Altar" (1516), whose impact on cubism (it was Braque's favorite work of art) has yet to be examined, and a prehistoric...
- Concepts drawn from world in transition: Holbein, Schongauer illustrate a new...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Shaw-Eagle, Joanna October 30, 1999 700+ words
...great artists such as Martin Schongauer, Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht Durer, Matthias Grunewald, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Baldung Grien . It also includes lesser-known painters such as Urs Graf...
- The way of all flesh. (figure painting, Ivan Albright, Metropolitan Museum of...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Duncan, Michael July 1, 1997 700+ words
...most far-flung efforts of Renaissance hyperrealists and allegorists such as Carlo Crivelli, Giulio Zumbo, Matthias Grunewald and Albrecht Altdorfer. With his penchant for the grim and grotesque, Albright is impossible to classify other...
