Hans Baldung Grien, (c. 1484 – September 1545)
Lot and his daughters
Oil on panel, in three parts of four
37 5/8 x 63 3/8 in. (95.6 x 158.4 cm.)
Private collection
Hans Baldung Grien, (c. 1484 – September 1545)
Lot and his daughters
Oil on panel, in four parts
37 5/8 x 63 3/8 in. (95.6 x 158.4 cm.)
Private collection
The fragment that shows her (the second daughter) is missing, but is known from a photograph; she is topless, standing behind a curtain.
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left
Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and
his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the
younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us
children—as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink
wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
That night
they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept
with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
The next
day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father.
Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so
we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father
to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with
him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by
their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the
father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she
named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today. More Lot and his two daughters
Hans Baldung Grien or Grün (c. 1484 – September 1545) was
a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted
student of Albrecht Dürer. Throughout his lifetime, Baldung developed a
distinctive style, full of color, expression and imagination. His talents were
varied, and he produced a great and extensive variety of work including
portraits, woodcuts, altarpieces, drawings, tapestries, allegories and
mythological motifs.
Beginning
in 1503, Baldung was an apprentice for the most well renowned German artist of
the day: Albrecht Dürer. In 1509, when Baldung’s apprenticeship was
complete, he moved back to Strasbourg, opened a workshop, and began signing his
works with the HGB monogram that he used for the rest of his career. His style
also became much more deliberately individual, a tendency some art historians
have termed "mannerist."
His most characteristic paintings are small in scale; a
series of puzzling, often erotic allegories and mythological works. The number
of Hans Baldung's religious works diminished with the Protestant Reformation,
which generally repudiated church art as either wasteful or idolatrous. More on Hans Baldung
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