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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. 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 ...
Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, [a] (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer and whose art belongs to both German Renaissance and Mannerism.
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Hans Baldung was a student of the painter Albrecht Dürer, and Baldung was inspired by his artistic style throughout his career. [5] The theme of the coronation is borrowed from the center panel of Dürer's Heller Altarpiece, which was lost in a fire in 1729. [6] It also contains elements from Dürer's Coronation of the Virgin woodcut. [7]
Hans Baldung, New Year’s Greeting with Three Witches, 1514. Pen and white ink, heightened with white, on brown prepared paper. 12 × 8 ¼ inches, Vienna, Albertina Museum Items portrayed in this file
Another significant artist whose art consistently depicted witches was Dürer's apprentice, Hans Baldung Grien, a 15th-century German artist. His chiaroscuro woodcut, Witches , created in 1510, visually encompassed all the characteristics that were regularly assigned to witches during the Renaissance.
The Witches' Sabbath by Hans Baldung (woodcut), 1508. Writer Chris Fujiwara notes the way in which the film "places together, on the same level of cinematic depiction, fact and fiction, objective reality and hallucination."
Consequently, woodcut was the main medium for book illustrations until the late sixteenth century. The first woodcut book illustration dates to about 1461, only a few years after the beginning of printing with movable type, printed by Albrecht Pfister in Bamberg. Woodcut was used less often for individual ("single-leaf") fine-art prints from ...