The Kirchdrauf Master was an anonymous painter active between 1480 and 1490. His provisional name derives from an
altarpiece
An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...
he painted for the Cathedral of Saint Martin in
Spišská Kapitula
Spišská Kapitula (german: Zipser Kapitel, hu, Szepeshely or Szepesi Káptalan) (both meaning the "Spiš Chapter house") is an exceptionally well-preserved ecclesiastical town on the outskirts of Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia, and overlooking ...
, in the town of
Kirchdrauf. He worked in the late
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
style.
References
Brief description and a nativity scene from the main altar in the church of Kirchdrauf
15th-century births
16th-century deaths
15th-century German painters
Anonymous artists
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