(1484/85-1545) German Renaissance painter, engraver, and designer. He was based in Strasbourg. A prolific artist, he designed tapestries and stained glass, produced many graphic works, and painted religious subjects, portraits, and allegories, notably his several versions of Death and the Maiden.
He was a friend of Dürer, who had some influence on his work and may have been his master during his early stay at Nuremberg, c. 1502. His principal religious paintings were his altarpiece for the cathedral at Freiburg, The Adoration of the Kings (Berlin) and Crucifixion (Basel), showing an ornate invention. The fantastic and somber element recurrent in German art appears in such an allegory as his Death and the Maiden (Basel). His woodcuts are variously signed HB, HBG and HG.