Surrounded by physicians, lawyers, and scholars, Hans Baldung Grien (b. about 1484, possibly Schwäbisch, Germany - d. 1545, Strasbourg, France) was one of the first German artists from a learned family. He first studied in Strasbourg or Swabia around 1499. While in Albrecht Dürer's Nuremberg workshop from 1503 to 1507, he was nicknamed "Grien," probably after his favorite ...