Danube School

Danube school

Tradition of German landscape painting and etching that developed in the Danube River valley between Regensburg and Vienna in the early 16th century. The most important artists associated with the movement were Albrecht Altdorfer and Lucas Cranach the Elder; others included Wolf Huber (1485–1553) and Jörg Breu the Elder (1475/76–1537). They were among the pioneers in depicting landscape for its own sake, often in highly subjective, expressive fashion.

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Danube School 

a movement in painting and graphic art that arose in southern Germany and Austria in the first half of the 16th century. The early works of L. Cranach, the works of A. Altdorfer and W. Huber, as well as a number of works of H. Lautensack, A. Hirschvogel, and J. Breu, are representative of the Danube school of art. The works of this school, representing a complete break with medieval artistic traditions, are characterized by freedom of imagination, intensity of feeling, romantic and at times fantastic images, an interest in nature (especially river and forest landscapes) and in space and light, a dynamic and impetuous manner, expressiveness of drawing, and intensity of color.

REFERENCE

Stange, A. Malerei der Donauschule. Munich, 1964.