Fritz Pleydenwurff is mentioned as a painter in Bamberg in 1432, as is Kunz Pleydenwurff in 1435, the latter receiving civic commissions in 1447. Hans Pleydenwurff went from Bamberg to become an important painter in 15th-century Nuremberg. Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, probably the youngest of Hans's three sons, worked with Michael Wolgemut, who married Hans's widow the year of his death.