Early Life
Hans Baldung was born in Swabia, Germany in the year 1484 to a family of intellectuals, academics and professionals. His father was a lawyer and his uncle was a doctor, and many other of his family members maintained professional degrees. In fact, Baldung was the first male in his family not to attend university. This made him one of the first German artists to come from a learned family. His earliest training as an artist began around 1500 in the Upper Rhineland by an artist from Strasbourg.
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