Word: schongauer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gruber had any one thing to teach, it was the value of a return to the 15th and 16th Century German masters he himself most admired: Matthias Grünewald, Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Their art had been as strictly delineated, and often as sad and bitter cold as his, though far more ambitious. Had he lived, Gruber might conceivably have come to paint a Crucifixion as great as Grünewald's. He never got beyond showing how pathetic a nude model and how forbidding a winter landscape can look...