The Danube School or Donau School (German: Donauschule or Donaustil) is the name of a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (mainly along the Danube valley).
The Danube School describes collectively a number of artists who worked in or near the reaches of the Danube between Regensburg and Vienna in the period c. 1500 to c. 1530.
The Danube School encompasses a group of German and Austrian artists working in and around Danube, Germany in the early 16th century. The town became an artistic center because of its location between Nuremberg, Augsberg, and Vienna.
The Danube School--whose principal members, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Wolf Huber, reflected an extraordinary awakening of interest in landscape painting--was a loose grouping of masters.
Danube school. Name used to describe the developments in landscape painting which took place in the Danube region in the early 16th с The artists working there, who included Altdorfer, Huber and Lucas Cranach (as a young man), ...
Danube School
the name loosely refers to several early 16th-century German painters, such as Albrecht Altdorfer and Lucas Cranach, famous for lush landscapes and rich colouristic effects.
Decadent Movement ...
He was leader of the Danube School in Southern Germany; during this time he continued to paint until his death in 1538. His body was buried in the church of the Augustine Cloister.
Like some other artists of the Reformation period, his emphasis was less on the religious aspects of his work than on the landscape, and Altdorfer became one of the most important representatives of the Danube School of Painting, ...
Web Gallery of Art: Danube School
School of artists who worked in or near the reaches of the Danube between Regensburg and Vienna in 1500-1530. Mega-Zone - Filippo Brunelleschi - Sculptor and Architect in Florence ...
 See also: School, Painting, Renaissance, Expression, Portrait
  
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