This volume contains nearly the entire creative output of Hans Holbein the Younger's Basel period, i.e. the productive and innovative years between 1515 and 1532 In contrast to his later work in England, where he was active primarily as a portraitist and a designer at court, the Basel years were varied and multifaceted.Holbein produced religious altarpieces in Switzerland, among them ambitious and large-scale panels such as those of the Oberried Altar, and the Solothurn and Darmstadt Madonnas.

Foreword

Lenders

Acknowledgments

Sabine Haiberli:

Biography

Jochen Sander:

The Artistic Development of Hans Holbein the Younger as

Panel Painter during his Basel Years

Christian Muller:

Hans Holbein the Younger as Draughtsman

Stephan Kemperdick:

Altarpieces, Epitaphs and Organ Shutters: Religious Paintings

Peter Cornelius Claussen:

Holbein's Career between City and Court

Nikolaus Meier:

Tactics and Strategy: Holbein's patrons in Basel: bankers,

scholars and nobles

Andreas Beyer:

The London Interlude 1526-1528

Kaspar von Greyerz:

Basel in Holbein's Day

Dieter Koepplin :

On Holbein's Painting of the Pauline Creed

of Law and Grace

Matthias Winner:

The Terminus as a Rebus in Holbein's Portraits of Erasmus

Oskar Batschmann:

Holbein's Hand

Stephanie Buck:

The Imoges of Deoth and the Triumph of Life

Christian Rumelin:

Hans Holbein and Printmaking

Catalogue

Drawings and Paintings

Prints

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Photographic Credits