Hans Leinberger, sometimes given as Lemberger (c.1475/1480 – after 1531) was a Late Gothic sculptor from Altbayern, who worked in wood, metal and stone.

Life and work

His exact birthplace is unknown, as is the place and manner of his artistic education. The first documented reference to him involves his residency in

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in 1510. The location of his workshop there remains a matter of speculation. After 1516, he did work for

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, who lived there while he was co-regent with his brother

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. Wage receipts from 1529/30 indicate that he probably held a position similar to an official court artist. None of the works he created in that capacity appear to have survived. He may have been the brother of

Georg Lemberger Georg Lemberger (c.1490–1500, in Landshut – c.1540–1545) was a German painter and woodcut artist. Life and work He was probably related to the sculptor Hans Leinberger, who also lived in Landshut, but the relationship is unclear. It appea ...

, a painter and

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artist who also lived in Landshut, but the relationship is unclear. His fame today rests largely upon the high altar at the Church of

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in Moosburg an der Isar. Completed in 1514, it is the largest surviving altarpiece in Altbayern (although it was significantly modified in the 18th century by ). That same year, he created a statue of Albert IV for the

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from a drawing provided by

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; a sign of the esteem in which he must have been held. His later works include a

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for the

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(1516/18) and a seated figure of

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for his namesake church (c.1525) which is now in the

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. His last known works were altar figures for the Liebfrauenkirche in

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, but only two (a Madonna and a

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) have survived.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leinberger, Hans 15th-century German sculptors German male sculptors 16th-century German sculptors People from Landshut Renaissance sculptors 15th-century births 1530s deaths

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