Peter Gertner

Peter Gertner , also gardener (* around 1495/1500; † after 1541 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter.

Live and act

Portrait of Ottheinrich, auctioned at Christie's, New York 2006

Susanna of Bavaria (1529/30), Berchtesgaden Castle Museum

On January 12, 1521, Peter Gertner received citizenship in Nuremberg , where he presumably learned from the painter Wolf Traut . He became known as a portrait painter and worked for Margrave Kasimir (Brandenburg-Kulmbach) in 1527 . With his widow Susanna von Bayern , after her marriage to Ottheinrich , he went to the court of Neuburg an der Donau , where he worked as maister Peter, Hofmaller .

His signature was his monogram pg on a gardener's spade, which is why he is sometimes referred to as "Master PG".

Works

Crucifixion (1537), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

• Portrait of a Man (1523); Formerly the Kurpfälzisches Museum , Heidelberg stolen in 1974
• Hans Geyer (1524), North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh (North Carolina)
• Memorial picture of Margrave Casimir and his wife (lost); Copy in Kilian's Church (Heilbronn)
• Susanna von Bayern (c. 1530), Berchtesgaden Castle Museum
• Portraits of Ottheinrich and other members of the Wittelsbach family (1531 to 1539), most of them in the Bavarian National Museum , Munich
• Philip the Arguable , painted in front of the view of Vienna besieged by the Turks(1530), Bavarian National Museum
• Crucifixion (1537), Walters Art Museum , Baltimore

literature

• K. Holes: Peter Gertner - a Nuremberg master as court painter to Count Palatine Ottheinrich in Neuburg an der Donau. (Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt CXLI) Neuburg an der Donau 1993

Web links

Commons : Peter Gertner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lot notes on Peter Gertner: Portrait of Ottheinrich von der Pfalz (1502-1559) , Christie's (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christie's