Grunewald biography and artwork – artchive

All search results. Enter keywords. Quick search helps finding an artist, picture, user or article and prompts your previous searches. Enter site. Products and prices. S'abonner Biographie et informations. Matthias Grunewald real name Gothart Nithart, rod. A significant part of his life was court artist to Archbishop of Mainz.

Perhaps the artist Matthias Grunewald is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic in the history of European art.

Botticelli lamentation

His name for several centuries, was consigned to complete oblivion, and only in the late nineteenth century accidentally rediscovered. Little more than a hundred years ago, information about it was published in one of the books on the history of painting, the painter again "no luck" and the author mistakenly gave him the name of another little known artist.

After a few centuries of complete neglect of the work of Grunewald became a source of inspiration for the expressionists, who during the second half of the nineteenth century helped the master to take its rightful place in the Pantheon of the greatest artists of Germany. Literally bit by bit managed to collect a meager facts, which in General became known biography of the master.

About parents painters and his coaches don't know anything. Well established is the fact that in the artist Grunewald was paid minskim Archbishop for the design of the residence.