Matthias Grünewald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Matthias Grünewald

German Renaissance painter

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1480

Place of Birth: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1528

Profession: architect, engineer, painter, drawer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Matthias Grünewald (c.?1470 – 31 August 1528) 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.
His first name is also given as Mathis and his surname as Gothart or Neithardt.
Only ten paintings—several consisting of many panels—and thirty-five drawings survive, all religious, although many others were lost at sea in the Baltic on their way to Sweden as war booty.
His reputation was obscured until the late nineteenth century, and 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.