# Hans Baldung artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:20:14.886Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: German Renaissance, Mannerism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Engraving, Drawing, Stained glass

## Portrait

![Hans Baldung](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Kw11_0012025_20190129_001_Baldung_Jugendliches_Selbstbildnis.jpg/1280px-Kw11_0012025_20190129_001_Baldung_Jugendliches_Selbstbildnis.jpg)
Hans Baldung Grien · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kw11_0012025_20190129_001_Baldung_Jugendliches_Selbstbildnis.jpg

## About Hans Baldung

Hans Baldung, widely known as Hans Baldung Grien, was a German painter and printmaker born around 1484 and deceased in 1545. His career belongs to the early sixteenth century, and he is frequently classified with the German Renaissance and Mannerism. Collected sources also connect his early development with Albrecht Dürer. Baldung worked across painting, printmaking, engraving, drawing, and stained glass, giving collectors several distinct kinds of objects through which they may encounter his name. Subjects represented in the collected material include religious imagery, witchcraft and the supernatural, mortality, and the stages of life. These themes, together with his activity in both unique works and reproducible graphic media, help explain his presence in museum collections, authority files, and auction records. Historical records commonly use the name Hans Baldung Grien, so that form is important when matching catalogues and collection entries to Hans Baldung.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Hans Baldung's name may include paintings, prints, engravings, drawings, other works on paper, and stained-glass material or designs. Documented subject areas include religious scenes, supernatural or witchcraft imagery, mortality, and the stages of life. The source pack does not establish how frequently these categories appear at auction, so they should be treated as documented artistic practices and themes rather than a ranked list of market supply.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's supplied artist-page input reports 174 records catalogued under Hans Baldung, but the source pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or realized prices. Those records should therefore be compared by work type rather than treated as a single price series: paintings, prints or engravings, and drawings are materially different categories. Useful comparisons should consider the documented medium, subject, sale date, realized price, and full lot context. The present evidence does not establish the frequency of each category, a price trend, or the authorship of any individual object. Object-level appraisal still requires careful examination of the work and its documentation.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164696
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024290
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22150893/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/63939
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027601137
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Baldung
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_alias_Baldung_Gr%C3%BCn_atau_Baldung-Grien_Baldung
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hans-baldung/