Wolf Huber

Wolf Huber (* 1485 in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, † June 3, 1553 in Passau ) was an Austro- German painter, draftsman and architect of the Renaissance.

About his life little is known. Since about 1510 active in Passau, where he became court painter in 1540 and 1541 the Episcopal city builder. Whose real first name was Wolfgang.

Huber, who is next to Albrecht Altdorfer as the greatest master of the Danube School, is now valued for its light-handed, as written landscape drawings. He developed the " inspired " landscape of heartfelt, delicate depiction of nature up to demonic visions. In Huber's painting the landscape wins against the scenic priority.

Major works

• Anne altar ( 1515-21; Feldkirch, Parish Church of St. Nicholas, and Bregenz, Landesmuseum )
• Farewell Christ from Mary ( 1519; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
• Marie altar (around 1525-30, National Gallery, Berlin, and Munich, Bavarian National Museum )
• Exaltation of the Cross ( after 1525, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
• Passion altar ( around 1530, Munich, Alte Pinakothek, and St. Florian near Linz, Augustinian Canons )
• Erlösungsallegorie (after 1543, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
• Portrait of Jacob Ziegler ( 1544-49; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)