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[[Image:Schongauer_The_Annunciation.JPG|thumb|The Annunciation by Martin Schongauer.]]

[[Image:Schongauer_The_Annunciation.JPG|thumb|''The Annunciation'' by Martin Schongauer.]]

'''German Painting''' had its roots in [[Paris]], the intellectual centre of [[Europe]], and [[Italy]]. Konrad Witz (c. 1400 - before 1447), Martin Schongauer (c. 1450 - 1491), Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 - 1528), Hans Holbein the Elder, a Northern [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] Painter, (ca. 1465 - 1524) and his son [[Hans Holbein the Younger]] (1497 - 1543), created outstanding examples of German painting, but it was [[Albrecht Dürer]] (1471 – 1528), who became the founder of the [[German]] Renaissance.

'''German Painting''' had its roots in [[Paris]], the intellectual centre of [[Europe]], and [[Italy]]. Konrad Witz (c. 1400 - before 1447), Martin Schongauer (c. 1450 - 1491), Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 - 1528), Hans Holbein the Elder, a Northern [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] Painter, (ca. 1465 - 1524) and his son [[Hans Holbein the Younger]] (1497 - 1543), created outstanding examples of German painting, but it was [[Albrecht Dürer]] (1471 – 1528), who became the founder of the [[German]] Renaissance.

''The course of German painting ran parallel to that of the Italian Renaissance.'' <ref>[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=LrDpWGKqc22hhJQ5H0Qs2BytqMTZ1LQc5Jhxnvgl5XVVYPSNd9hX!795949181?a=o&d=55434024 German Painting XIV-XVI CENTURIES]</ref>

''The course of German painting ran parallel to that of the Italian Renaissance.'' <ref>[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=LrDpWGKqc22hhJQ5H0Qs2BytqMTZ1LQc5Jhxnvgl5XVVYPSNd9hX!795949181?a=o&d=55434024 German Painting XIV-XVI CENTURIES]</ref>

[[Image:Altdorfer Danubian Landscape.jpg|300px]]

[[Image:Altdorfer Danubian Landscape.jpg|300px]]

View of the Danube Valley near Regensburg

''View of the Danube Valley near Regensburg''

 

by Albrecht Altdorfer.  

by Albrecht Altdorfer.  

The [[Leipzig]] and Dresden Schools are among the latest generations of German painters. ''Figurative art that was deprecated as hopelessly passé in Paris and Düsseldorf never lost its grip in Leipzig. The city prided itself on being the birthplace of Max Beckmann and on a painterly lineage begot by Lucas Cranach.'' <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/08leipzig.html?ex=1294376400&en=9d9fe31340e878a2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss The New Leipzig School]</ref> Dresden has been a leading center of German art since the 1700s.  

The [[Leipzig]] and Dresden Schools are among the latest generations of German painters. ''Figurative art that was deprecated as hopelessly passé in Paris and Düsseldorf never lost its grip in Leipzig. The city prided itself on being the birthplace of Max Beckmann and on a painterly lineage begot by Lucas Cranach.'' <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/08leipzig.html?ex=1294376400&en=9d9fe31340e878a2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss The New Leipzig School]</ref> Dresden has been a leading center of German art since the 1700s.  

== See also ==

== See also ==

[[Image:Goethe.jpg|thumb|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Joseph Karl Stieler]]

[[Image:Adrian Ludwig Richter St. Anne Church.jpg|thumb|''St. Anne Church in Graupen, Böhmen'' by Adrian Ludwig Richter.]]

*[[Gallery of German Masterpieces]]

*[[Gallery of German Masterpieces]]

*[[Egon Schiele]]

*[[Egon Schiele]]

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[[Image:Kirchner Berliner Strassenszene.jpg|thumb|240px|''Berliner Strassenszene'' by Ernst Kirchner]]

[[Image:Kirchner Berliner Strassenszene.jpg|thumb|240px|''Berliner Strassenszene'' by Ernst Kirchner]]

[[Image:Adrian Ludwig Richter St. Anne Church.jpg|thumb|left|''St. Anne Church in Graupen, Böhmen'' by Adrian Ludwig Richter.]]

[[Image:Goethe.jpg|thumb|left|''Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'' by Joseph Karl Stieler]]

 

[[Category:Painting]]

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