Hans Pleydenwurff 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

Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century the ideas spread around Europe...

 painters. He probably was a teacher of Michael Wolgemut

Michael Wolgemut

Michael Wolgemut was a German painter and printmaker, born in Nuremberg.-Biography:Little is known of Wolgemut's private life...

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His son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, born in 1460, ooperated with Michael Wolgemut for the woodcuts of Hartmann Schedel

Hartmann Schedel

Hartmann Schedel was a German physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. He was born in Nuremberg...

's Nuremberg Chronicle

Nuremberg Chronicle

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Another son, Sebald, settled in Eisleben

Eisleben

Eisleben is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is famous as the hometown of Martin Luther, hence its official name is Lutherstadt Eisleben. As of 2005, Eisleben had a population of 24,552...

, his profession is unknown. He died at Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

 in 1472.

Selected works

• Christ as Man of Sorrows, Kunstmuseum
  Kunstmuseum Basel
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  , Basel, Switzerland
• Altarpiece
  Altarpiece
  An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
  
  , St. Elisabeth in Breslau (1462, currently at Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day...
  
  , 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
  Bamberg
  Bamberg is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main. Bamberg is one of the few cities in Germany that was not destroyed by World War II bombings because of a nearby Artillery Factory that prevented planes from...
  
   (Staatsgalerie Bamberg)
• High Altar, 1465 for St. Michaelis in Hof, since 1811 in Alte Pinakothek
  Alte Pinakothek
  The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings...
  
  , Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
  
• Crucifixion, 1470, Alte Pinakothek, Munich

External links

• Some works by Hans Pleydenwurff at Scholars Resource