Editing Hans Baldung (section)

==Strasbourg==
In 1509, when Baldung's time in Nuremberg was complete, he moved back to Strasbourg and became a [[Citizenship#Middle Ages|citizen there]]. He became a celebrity of the town and received many important [[commissioner|commissions]]. The following year, at age 26, he married Margarethe Herlin,{{efn|In a manuscript, known as the 'Collectanea genealogica', she is quoted as 'Margred Härlerin'.{{sfn|von Pettenegg|1877|p=2}}}} a local merchant's daughter,{{sfn|Brady|1975|p=305}} with whom he had one child, Margarethe Baldungin.{{sfn|von Pettenegg|1877|p=2}} He also joined the [[guild]] "Zur Steltz",{{sfn|Brady|1975|p=298}} opened a workshop, and began signing his works with the HGB [[monogram]] that he used for the rest of his career. 

His style became much more deliberately individual—a tendency [[art historians]] used to term "[[mannerist]]." He stayed in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1513–1516 where he made, among other things, the {{ill|High altar of the Freiburg Münster|de|Hochaltar des Freiburger Münsters}}.{{sfn|Hagen|2001|pp=18–27}}

Like Dürer and [[Lucas Cranach the Elder|Cranach]], Baldung supported the [[Protestant Reformation]]. He was present at the [[diet of Augsburg]] in 1518, and one of his [[woodcut]]s represents [[Martin Luther|Luther]] in quasi-saintly guise, under the protection of (or being inspired by) the Holy Spirit, which hovers over him in the shape of a dove.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=640}}