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German Renaissance painter (c.1470-1528)

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Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 – 31 August 1528; also known as Mathis Gothart Nithart^[1]) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.

Only ten paintings—including several polyptychs—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea on their way to Sweden as war booty. He was obscure until the late nineteenth century, when many of his paintings were attributed to Albrecht Dürer, who is now seen as his stylistic antithesis.

His largest and most famous work is the Isenheim Altarpiece created c. 1512 to 1516.

Life

He was recognised in his own lifetime, as shown by his commissions, yet the details of his life are unusually unclear for a painter of his signific Matthias Grünewald | German Renaissance Painter | Britannica QAZE