Biography

Bohemian painter. He was first head of the painter's guild in Prague, founded in 1348, and was painter to the emperor Charles IV between 1359 and 1367. For Charles he decorated the Holy Cross Chapel of Karlstein Castle near Prague with more than a hundred panels of saints, prophets, and angels, most of them still in situ. He shows even more clearly than the Master of Vyssi Brod the evolution of a distinct Bohemian School from Italian and French antecedents.