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Wolfgang Katzheimer the elder (German: Wolfgang Katzheimer der Ältere; c. 1430 — 1508,
File:1485 Katzheimer Apostelabschied Historisches Museum Bamberg anagoria.jpg, ''Sending out the apostles'' (1485)
File:Wolfgang Katzheimer d.Ä. - Verspottung Christi (Winnipeg Art Gallery).jpg, ''Mocking of Christ'' (circa 1500)
File:Wolfgang Katzheimer - Der hl. Bartholomäus befreit die armenische Königstochter vom Teufel - L 1571 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg, ''St. Bartholomew frees the Armenian king's daughter from the devil'' (circa 1500)
File:Wolfgang Katzheimer - Feuerprobe der hl. Kunigunde - L 1031 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg, ''Trial by fire of St. Kunigunde'' (circa 1500)
File:1483 Katzheimer Christus vor Kaiphas anagoria.JPG, ''Christ before
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Wolfgang Katzheimer the elder (German: Wolfgang Katzheimer der Ältere; c. 1430 — 1508, Bamberg
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)Renate Baumgärtel-Fleischmann. "Katzheimer, Wolfgang." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T046018 (accessed December 20, 2011; subscription required). was a German painter
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, draftsman
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, and designer. From 1465 he was master of a workshop in Bamberg that produced paintings and woodcarvings.
Very little of his work has survived: two stone carvings that he designed and 22 woodcuts based on his drawings. No surviving paintings can with certainty be attributed to him.
Katzheimer had two sons, Wolfgang Katzheimer the younger and Bernhard Katzheimer, who were both minor artists. It is possible that he was a close relative of the painter Lorenz Katzheimer, who was likely the anonymous master
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Caiaphas
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15th-century German painters
German male painters
16th-century German painters
1430 births
1508 deaths