Danube school time. Among its members were: Lucas Cranach the Elder was a major influence on, and is occasionally considered a member of, the Danube school. Danube school The Danube School or Donau School (German: "Donauschule" or "Donaustil") was a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bavaria and Austria (mainly along the Danube valley). Many also were innovative printmakers, usually in etching. They were among the first painters to regularly use pure landscape painting, and their figures, influenced by Matthias Grünewald, are often highly expressive, if not expressionist. They show little Italian influence, and also represent
Danube Hills Danube Hills The Danube Hills (), also variously called the Vorderer Forest, Anterior Bavarian Forest or Vorderer Wald ("Vordere Bayerische Wald"), is part of the Bavarian Forest, a low mountain range in Germany. In older geographical-regional literature the German name "Vordere Bayerische Wald" was applied to the whole southern chain of the Bavarian/Bohemian mountains between the Danube and the Regen, from the Keilberg Depression near Regensburg to the Austro-German border near Passau. Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller described it in 1846 as the "äußern Wald" ('outer forest') "named the Regen Mountains by the geographers". Others chose the name Danube Hills