Holbein painted richly colored religious works. His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his principal works, he also designed church windows and woodcuts. The surviving prints that can be attributed to him are few and a new one has recently been added to the group, an Annunciation to the Virgin in the collection of the Universitätbibliothek in Erlangen.Guido Messling, ‘The Annunciation to the Virgin by Hans Holbein the Elder’, Print Quarterly, XXXVI, no.3 (September 2019), pp. 286–293. He also made a number of portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son, Hans Holbein the Younger.
Holbein painted richly colored religious works. His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style. In addition to the altar paintings that are his principal works, he also designed church windows and woodcuts. The surviving prints that can be attributed to him are few and a new one has recently been added to the group, an Annunciation to the Virgin in the collection of the Universitätbibliothek in ErlangenGuido Messling, ‘The Annunciation to the Virgin by Hans Holbein the Elder’, Print Quarterly, XXXVI, no.3 (September 2019), pp. 286–293. He also made a number of portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son Hans Holbein the Younger.