Hans Suess, known as Hans von Kulmbach (1480 in

Kulmbach Kulmbach () is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. The town, once a stronghold of the Principality of Bayreuth, is renowned for its University of Life Sciences, a branch of the University of Bayreuth, the massive Plasse ...

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– prior to 3 December 1522 in

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), was a German artist active in Poland.John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
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St John's Altar.

Life

Kulmbach probably arrived in Nuremberg around 1505. He received instruction by

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, who for a time worked in Nuremberg. Von Kulmbach then apprenticed with

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer ( , ;; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, Old master prin ...

and after Dürer retired from painting altarpieces in 1510 Kulmbach took over most of his commissions. Kulmbach had his own workshop in Nuremberg and at times worked in

. He also created artworks for emperor Maximilian I and for Margrave Casimir

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von Brandenburg-Kulmbach. His best works were

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windows in churches, such as the Maximilian stained-glass, Margrave stained-glass at St. Sebald in Nuremberg, the Welser stained-glass at the Frauenkirche and the Nikolaus altar at Lorenzkirche. In 1511 he finished the St. Mary's altar at

Skałka Basilica of Saints Michael the Archangel and Stanislaus the Bishop, also known as Skałka, which means "a small rock" in Polish, is a church situated on a small outcrop in Kraków atop of which a Pauline monastery is also located. The crypt ...

in Kraków. The Catherine and St. John's altar also in Kraków, are among his best works.

Gallery

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'' (1511),

Czartoryski Museum The Princes Czartoryski Museum ( ) – often abbreviated to Czartoryski Museum – is a historic museum in Kraków, Poland, and one of the country's oldest museums. The initial collection was formed in 1796 in Puławy by Princess Izabela Czartor ...

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by Kulmbach File:Hans Süß von Kulmbach (zugeschr.) - Heiliger Georg.jpg,

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File:Suess Catherine of Alexandria.JPG, ''The Execution of St. Catherine of Alexandria'' File:Hans von Kulmbach-triptico del rosario.jpg, ''Triptych of the Rosary''. . Thyssen-Bornemizsa Museum, Madrid.

References

Hans von Kulmbach biography at getty.edu

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kulmbach, Hans von 1480s births 1528 deaths 16th-century German painters German male painters People from Kulmbach Painters from Nuremberg Stained glass artists and manufacturers German Roman Catholics

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