!!!Kriechbaum, Martin

Kriechbaum, Martin, painter and sculptor, originally from Munich. 
Possibly a student of N.  Gerhaert van Leyden and worked with him in 
Vienna and Wiener Neustadt. There is evidence that he worked in Passau 
from 1473, where he ran a big workshop with his sons Stefan and 
Sebastian. From his great number of works, none has been preserved or 
can be identified clearly. He created altars for the monastery at 
Waldhausen (Upper Austria; 1488; lost), St. Paul at Passau (1495; 
burnt down) and Maria Laach (Lower Austria; 1518; lost). In 1472/73 he 
and his brother Ulrich were commissioned to create a winged altarpiece 
for the monastery at Goettweig (Lower Austria; 1510). It might be the 
one now kept at Mauer bei Melk (Lower Austria). The altars at Zwettl 
(Lower Austria) and Kefermarkt (Upper Austria) have also been ascribed 
to the Kriechbaum workshop; however, there is no clear evidence that 
K. was responsible for the altar at Kefermarkt.

!Literature
Oberoesterreichisches Landesmuseum (ed.), Der Meister des 
Kefermarkter Altars, 1993; U. Krone-Balcke, Der Kefermarkter Altar - 
sein Meister und seine Werkstatt, 1999.


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