Paul Lautensack, a German painter and organist, was born at Bamberg in 1478, but in 1525, on account of his having embraced the reformed religion, he left that city and settled in Nuremberg, where he painted many subjects from the Apocalypse, and also wrote some treatises upon it, which were collected and published at Frankfurt in 1619. He, however, became so troublesome by reason of his fanaticism, that he was in 1542 expelled from the city, but after a time he was allowed to return, and is believed to have died there in 1558. There are still in Bamberg some of his paintings, chiefly copies of the prints of Martin Schongauer and the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer. His portrait, dated 1529, is in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg.
Lautensack was the father of Hans Sebald Lautensack, a painter and printmaker, and the goldsmith and printer Heinrich Lautensack.
This article incorporates text from the article "LAUTENSACK, Paul" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.