Meister von Laufen#

Meister von Laufen, painter. Worked in Salzburg approx. 1435 - after 1464. A typical representative of the coarse realistic style of the mid-15th century; probably worked together with the Meister of the Halleiner Altar (Master of the altar at Hallein). His later work contains elements from Viennese and Bohemian painting as well as from the art of C. Laib. He is named after a Crucifixion panel with three figures in the courtyard of the presbytery at Laufen (around 1435/40). Further works by him are kept in the Joanneum at Graz (legend of Helena, around 1440/45), at the monastery at St. Florian (Crucifixion, around 1440/50) and at the Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna (Bearing of the cross, Crucifixion, around 1450).

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