Short answers, pulled from the story.
The German Renaissance produced the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, and the Protestant Reformation, launched by Martin Luther in 1517. Both spread across Europe and transformed religion, politics, and culture on a continental scale.
Albrecht Durer, born in 1471 and died in 1528, is widely regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance. He was famous across Europe for his woodcuts and engravings, including Melencolia I, the Four Horsemen, and Knight, Death, and the Devil.
The Isenheim Altarpiece is a multi-winged triptych painted by Matthias Grunewald, completed in 1515. It has been widely regarded as the greatest German Renaissance painting. The work combines Renaissance compositional principles with the intensely emotional gesture and expression of the German Gothic tradition.
Most leading German artists became Protestants after the Reformation, which deprived them of religious commissions that had previously been the main source of artist revenue. The anti-image influence of Calvinism effectively ended the production of religious art for public display in Protestant regions, and German artistic development had nearly halted by around 1550.
The Danube School was a circle of artists working in Bavaria and Austria during the first third of the 16th century, including Albrecht Altdorfer, Wolf Huber, and Augustin Hirschvogel. The group produced the first examples of independent landscape art in the Western tradition, in both paintings and prints.
St. Michael in Munich is the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. Duke William V of Bavaria built it between 1583 and 1597 as a spiritual center for the Counter Reformation, modeled on the Church of il Gesu in Rome.