Hans Pleydenwurff
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Hans Pleydenwurff (also Pleidenwurff) (* c. 1420 probably in Bamberg, † 9 January 1472 in Nürnberg) 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 an new style of realism, influenced by Northern Renaissance painters. He probably was a teacher of Michael Wolgemut.
His son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460-1494) cooperated with Michael Wolgemut for the woodcuts of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle. Another son, Sebald, settled in Eisleben, his profession is unknown.
[edit] Work
- Hochaltar (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)
- Hochaltar, Klarissenkirche in Bamberg (Staatsgalerie Bamberg)
- Hofer Altar, 1465 for St. Michaelis in Hof, since 1811 in Alte Pinakothek, Munich
- Kreuzigung (crucification) (1470, Alte Pinakothek, München)
