Hans Pleydenwurff
Hans Pleydenwurff (also Pleidenwurff; c. 1420 – 9 January 1472) was a German painter.
His father was probably Kunz Pleydenwurff, a well-respected painter and part-time mayor in Bamberg. Since 1457, Hans lived in Nuremberg where he established a new style of realism, influenced by Northern Renaissance painters. He probably was a teacher of Michael Wolgemut.
His son
Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, born in 1460, operated with Michael Wolgemut for the woodcuts of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle
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Another son, Sebald, settled in Eisleben, his profession is unknown. Hans died at Nuremberg in 1472.
Selected works
- Christ as Man of Sorrows, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
- Breslau (1462, currently at Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg)
- Portrait of Georg Graf Löwenstein, canon at Bamberg (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
- Kalvarienberg of Georg Graf Löwenstein, canon at Bamberg (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
- High Altar, Klarissenkirche in Bamberg (Staatsgalerie Bamberg)
- High Altar, 1465 for St. Michaelis in Hof, since 1811 in Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- Crucifixion, 1470, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
External links
- "Works by Hans Pleydenwurff". Zeno.org (in German).
- Some works by Hans Pleydenwurff at Scholars Resource
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