Matthias Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece — agony and transfiguration

The anti-Durer. Where Durer pursued classical harmony, Grunewald painted suffering with an expressionist intensity that has no parallel until the twentieth century. The Isenheim Altarpiece — its Crucifixion a body covered in plague sores, its Resurrection an explosion of supernatural light — is one of the most powerful paintings ever made.

Key works

• Isenheim Altarpiece~1512-1516— Crucifixion and Resurrection — painted for a hospital for plague victims
  Musee Unterlinden, Colmar

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