Baldung, Hans

Baldung, Hans (or Gruen), a German painter and engraver, was born about 1495, at Gmuind, in Suabia. There are a number of his paintings in the cathedral at Freiburg. The following are a few of his principal paintings: — Adam and Eve in Paradise, Eve Plucking the Apple: — The Fall of Adam: — Christ

and the Twelve Apostles: — Bacchus Drunk, near a Tun: — An Incantation. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.