# Ludwig, Count von Löwenstein [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Linden panel, 46 x 33 cm ## Commentary Baldung's portraits have an eccentric, loopy authority as seen in the portrait of Ludwig, Count von Löwenstein \(1463-1524\), which may have faced a lost pendant showing his wife. Later legitimised, Ludwig was the bastard warrior son of Duke Frederick I the Victorious and an Augsburg resident, Clara Tott. At the time of his murder in 1524, he had received titles from and was active as military councilor to Maximilian I. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Aristotle and Phyllis]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Count Christoph I of Baden]() - [Count Philip]() - [Crucifixion]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()