Biography

German wood-carver and sculptor. He was the most eminent sculptor in Bavaria in the second and third decades of the 16th century. It is likely that he trained or was employed in the region of the Danube school, whether in Vienna or Regensburg. There is also a possibility that he began his career in Nuremberg. His centre of activity was in Landshut, where his life is documented from 1510 until 1530. He paid tax in 1510 on a house there and between 1516 and 1530 received various payments from the court of Ludwig X (reg 1516–45), but none of his projects for the court is known to have survived. More than 50 individual or multi-partite sculptures have been attributed to him. As a carver of figures for altarpieces, he worked mostly in lime-wood, but also produced sculpture in stone, bronze and fine-grained hardwoods, such as pear-wood and boxwood, selected according to the nature of the piece.