Ulrich Apt the Elder

The Lamentation by Ulrich Apt the Elder, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1510

Ulrich Apt the Elder (1460-1532), was a German Late-Gothic painter.

Biography

Apt was born in Augsburg, and lived and worked there all of his life. He became an independent master in 1481. He ran a workshop in Augsburg with his three sons Jacob, Ulrich Apt the Younger, and Michael, all artists, producing primarily religious themed works.^[1] He died in Augsburg in 1532.

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