Hans Baldung Grien (c. 1484 - 1545)

• Was a German painter, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist.
• Hans was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd (formerly Gmünd in Germany), a small free city of the Empire, part of the East Württemberg region in former Swabia.

• Baldung was the son of Johann Baldung, a university-educated jurist, who held the office of legal adviser to the bishop of Strasbourg (Albert of Bavaria) from 1492, and Margarethe Herlin, daughter of Arbogast Herlin.

• His uncle, Hieronymus Baldung, was a doctor in medicine, with a son, Pius Hieronymus, Hans' cousin, who taught law at Freiburg and became chancellor of Tyrol in 1527.

• Hans was not propertyless, but with unknown occupation.

• He was the first male in his family not to attend university, but was one of the first German artists to come from an academic family.

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