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The Social Place of a German Renaissance Artist: Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545) at Strasbourg

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Thomas A. Brady Jr
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In Jakob Burckhardt's classic vision of the emergence of a new, individualistic consciousness in Renaissance Italy, the artist took his place behind the tyrant as one of the early escapees from the crumbling prisons of medieval corporate institutions. Although the picture of his progress from craftsman to free professional is more nuanced and qualified in the recent literature, the Italian artist continues to enjoy his reputation as one of the few permanent beneficiaries of the Renaissance. As the Wittkowers have written: “But the new day came when artists began to revolt against the hierarchical order of which they were an integral part—a day when they regarded the organization meant to protect their interests as prison rather than shelter.”1 At Florence, where artists first achieved a new self-consciousness as theorists and men of letters, private patronage supplied the wealth for a new level of status, higher than that of the craftsman, and weakened the ties of guild life. Not that Florentine artists of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries invariably became either successful businessmen or bohemians—though both types could be found there and elsewhere in Italy—nor did they revolt against corporate institutions altogether. But their new organization, the Accademia del Disegno, resembled the old guild structure only superficially and was, as its name suggests, a professional association uniting the artistic crafts rather than a type of guild.2 If the sixteenth century Italian artist lacked the social prestige of the lawyer, the notary, or the physician, neither was he any longer lumped together with the cobbler, the stonemason, or the apothecary.

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Central European History , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 295 - 315
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Dedicated to the memory of Charles Wittmer (1901–74). My thanks are due The Newberry Library, Chicago, the American Philosophical Society, and the William Stamps Farish Foundation. I owe much to the unflagging generosity of M. F.-J. Fuchs, Director of the Archives de la Ville de Strasbourg, and of M.Jean Rott. Mary Ann Jack gave me several helpful suggestions.

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27. The traditional view, that Alsatian townsmen rarely invested in rural land, is quite wrong. See Vogt, Jean, “A propos de la propriété bourgeoise en Alsace (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles),” Revue d' Alsace 100 (1962): 48–66.Google Scholar

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49. Ibid., p. 261.

50. Koch, Zeichnungen, introduction.

51. Baumgarten, “Hans Baldungs Stellung,” p.261.

52. Baumgarten (p. 248) refers to the Luther portrait of 1521, but Baldung had also done one in 1520. Oldenbourg, M. Consuelo, Die Buchholzschnitte des Hans Baldung Grien: Ein bibliographies Verzeichnis ihrer Verwendungen, Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, vol. 335 (Baden-Baden and Strasbourg, 1962), nos. 343, 358.Google Scholar A notice (July 13, 1527) of Baldung's work for the bishop of Strasbourg by Rott, , Oberrhein, Quellen, 1: 218Google Scholar (cf. Baumgarten, “Hans Baldungs Stellung,” p. 257 n.i). Baldung sketched the arms of the bishop of Basel about 1530/31 and a donor with a rosary (a Catholic patron?) about the same time. Koch, Zeichnungen, no. 156.

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55. On Apr. 5, 1540, it was reported “das ettlich herren des Regimentss dise kar woch zu Eschaw zum sacrament gangen.…” AMS, XXI 1540, fol. 118.

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58. For which reason Kohls's remarks about Baldung's religion (“Die neu gefundene ‘Leien Bibel,’ ” p. 363) would seem incautious.

59. Combining Kohls's with Oldenbourg's attributions yields the following picture of Baldung's output of sketches for book illustrations, given for five-year intervals. The first number is the number of separate commissions, the second that of individual woodcuts; and each illustration is placed in the year of its first known publication: 1505–9,6 and 217; 1510–14, 15 and 110; 1515–19, 4 and 13; 1520–24,13 and 26; 1525–29, none; 1530–34, 1 and 2; 1535–39, 3 and 26; 1540–45, 3 and 16 +. Although this is a crude measure of work, the abrupt decline during his Freiburg period is obvious. But what explains the paucity of woodcuts from the decade 1525–1534?

60. Oldenbourg, Buchholzschnitte, p.152. See Chrisman, Strasbourg and the Reform, pp. 98, 118–19, 301–2.

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67. Ausstellungskatalog Hans Baldung Grien, no. 9. Baldung also painted Philipp, Count Palatine, in 1517. Ibid., no. 17. The story of Löwenstein's bungling pursuit of Sophia Böcklin's fortune (said to have been worth 60,000 fl.) is in the Zimmerische Chronik, ed. Barack, K. A., 4 vols. (Tübingen, 1869), 2: 148–51.Google Scholar

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73. Oil portraits not discussed are those of Adelberg III von Bärenfels (1526), two knights of St. John (1528, 1534), Georg I von Erbach (1533), and Ambrosius Volmar Keller (1538). Ausstellungskatalog Hans Baldung Grien, nos. 48, 53, 65, 66, 72.

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