Painter. A master of the late German Gothic period, celebrated for his multi-panel Isenheim Altarpiece (1510 to 1516), with its incomparable depictions of Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection. Accounts of Grunewald’s  life are scanty and contradictory. From 1501 to 1521 he had a workshop in Seligenstadt; he died in Halle sometime between 1528 and 1532. Of his work only 13 paintings and a few drawings survive. Composer Paul Hindemith based his famous opera “Mathis der Maler” (1938) on imaginary tales of Grunewald. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)