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Danube School

Pioneers of imaginative landscape painting who worked in the Danube region in the early 16th-c. Their members included Altdorfer and Cranach.

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The Danube 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 (also along the Danube valley).

Among the most important painters are:

Albrecht Altdorfer Wolf Huber Lucas Cranach Jörg Breu the Elder Rueland Frueauf the Younger.
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