German painter, architect, and engineer. His altarpiece at Isenheim, southern Alsace, (1515, Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France), with its grotesquely tortured figure of Jesus and its radiant
Resurrection, is his most important work.
During 15081514 he was painter to the archbishop of Mainz in Aschaffenburg, and after 1514 to the elector of Mainz, Albrecht von Brandenburg (14901545). His later years were occupied by a series of paintings ordered by the elector of Mainz for the Cathedral of Halle (where Grünewald also had the function of hydraulic engineer).
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