Hans Pleydenwurff

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 painters. 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 at Nuremberg in 1472.

Selected works

Christ as Man of Sorrows, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

Altarpiece, St. Elisabeth in Breslau Portrait of Georg Graf Löwenstein, canon at Bamberg
Kalvarienberg of Georg Graf Löwenstein, canon at Bamberg
High Altar, Klarissenkirche in Bamberg
High Altar, 1465 for St. Michaelis in Hof, since 1811 in Alte Pinakothek, MunichCrucifixion, 1470, Alte Pinakothek, Munich