Hans Pleydenwurff
Hans Pleydenwurff (also Pleidenwurff; c. 1420 – 9 January 1472) was a German painter. • Illustration — Detail Altar of the Magi • Illustration — Dreikönigsaltar 1460-1465 • Illustration — Crucifixion of Christ 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.
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Hans Pleydenwurff
Hans Pleydenwurff · The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. · Public domain
- Born
- 1420 · Bamberg.
- Died
- 1472 · Nuremberg.
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- Germany
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- painter
- Movements
- German Renaissance
- Known for
- Landauer Altar
- Languages
- German
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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. Another son, Sebald, settled in Eisleben, his profession is unknown. Hans died in Nuremberg in 1472.
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Hans Pleydenwurff lived from 1420 to 1472 and was an artist, painter and draughtsman. The birth of Hans Pleydenwurff is recorded in 1420 in Bamberg, and the death in 1472 in Nuremberg. Nuremberg is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Michael Wolgemut is recorded as having studied under Hans Pleydenwurff. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Nuremberg. Works named in the authority record are Landauer Altar. Work by Hans Pleydenwurff is recorded in the collections of National Museum in Warsaw, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Alte Pinakothek and Historical Museum Bamberg.
• Christ as Man of Sorrows, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland • Altarpiece, St. Elisabeth in 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
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1420
Hans Pleydenwurff born at Bamberg.
1472
Hans Pleydenwurff died at Nuremberg.
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