Wolf Huber

Wolf Huber: Danube landscape near Krems . Pen drawing, 1529.

Wolf Huber: Allegory of redemption , after 1543, in the foreground the founder, Passau Bishop Wolfgang von Salm (KHM Vienna).

Wolf Huber (* around 1485 in Feldkirch , Vorarlberg ; † June 3, 1553 in Passau ) was an Austro-German painter, draftsman and master builder of the Renaissance .

Little is known about his life. Active in Passau since around 1510, he became court painter for the bishopric in 1540 and city architect in 1541. His real first name was Wolfgang.

Huber, who, along with Albrecht Altdorfer, is considered the most important master of the Danube School , is valued today primarily for his light-handed, as well as written landscape drawings. He developed the "ensouled" landscape from intimate, delicate depictions of nature to demonic visions. In Huber's painting, the landscape takes precedence over the scenic.

Major works

Anne Altar (1515-21; Feldkirch, St. Nicholas Church, and Bregenz, Landesmuseum)
Christ's Farewell to Mary (1519; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Marienaltar (around 1525-30; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, and Munich, Bavarian National Museum)
Exaltation of the Cross (after 1525; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Passion altar (around 1530; Munich, Alte Pinakothek, and St. Florian near Linz, Augustinian Canon Monastery)
Allegory of Redemption (after 1543; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Portrait of Jacob Ziegler (1544–49; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

literature

Introduction by Hans Wühr : A. Altdorfer - W. Huber: Landscapes , Woldemar Klein, Berlin 1938.
Franz Winzinger : Wolf Huber, the complete works . Two volumes. 1979.
Franz Winzinger: Huber, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , pp. 700 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Wolf Huber. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1103-1105. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Commons : Wolf Huber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wolf Huber in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Huber, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huber, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German painter, draftsman and builder of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH	Feldkirch , Vorarlberg
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1553
Place of death	Passau