Ludwig, Count von Löwenstein

Baldung’s portraits have an eccentric, loopy authority as seen in the portrait of Ludwig, Count von L�wenstein (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.