Berthold Landauer

Berthold Landauer (* before 1396; † 1430/1432), was the name of a painter who worked in Nuremberg around 1400, which can be documented. He was also called Master Berthold or Berchtold Landauer . He was first listed in city tax lists in 1396 and was accepted as a citizen of the city that year. His name then appears several times in various forms in the city's books, sometimes with the professional title of painter. So is z. B. recorded his military service.

It has been suggested several times to see the painter of the Imhoff Altar and the Deichsler Altar in Berthold Landauer , since the Nuremberg painter or painters of these works are not known by name. However, this work assignment is controversial.

The attempt to see Berthold Landauer and his descendants as the founders of a “Nuremberg painter dynasty” is now probably out of date and outdated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berthold Landauer . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002. Accessed online Feb. 2010 (English)
2. ↑ cf. z. BM Matheus: City and defense construction in the Middle Rhine area . Franz Steiner Verlag 2003. p. 74
3. ↑ see also HA Dickinson: German Masters of Art . Frederick A. Stokes, New York 1914, p. 215
4. ↑ cf. z. BHA Dickinson: German Masters of Art . Frederick A. Stokes, New York 1914, p. 215
5. ↑ cf. z. BERedslob: The Franconian epitahs in the XIV. And XV. Century . (Messages from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum). UE Sebald, Nuremberg 1907

literature

• Ahlborn, Joachim: The Landauer Family: From Painter to Montanherren. Nuremberg: Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, 1969.