!!!Meister des Friedrichsaltars

Meister des Friedrichsaltars, around 1440/60 court painter in Vienna 
and Wiener Neustadt. He is named after the painted wings of the carved 
altar donated by Emperor Friedrich III to the Neuklosterkirche at 
Wiener Neustadt in 1447 (also: Wiener Neustaedter Altar; it was 
brought to St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in 1884). The wings of 
the altar show four rows of portraits of saints; on the predella are 
scenes from the childhood and Passion of Christ. The altar of the 
Spitalskirche at Bad Aussee (Styria) and the outer wings at the altar 
of Znaim (around 1440/50, Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna) 
are also ascribed to the artist's workshop. His rather conservative 
style of painting is strongly based on the form principles of the Soft 
Style.

!Literature
B. Ascherl, Der M. d. F., doctoral thesis, 
Vienna 1976.


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