FRUEAUF, Rueland the Younger
(b. ca. 1470, Passau, d. ca. 1545, Passau)

Biography

Austrian painter, son of Rueland Frueauf the Elder (c. 1440-1507). He was a citizen of Passau before 1497, a Councilor in 1533 and was still active as an artist in 1545. He painted a series of scenes from the life of St Leopold, some of which are signed RF and dated 1507, for Klosterneuberg, near Vienna, as well as a St Anne with the Virgin and Child (1508, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).