This artist is named after the portrait of Alexander Mornauer now in the Collection. He has been identified with the Tyrolean painter-sculptor Michael Pacher and also with the itinerant German painter Joos Amman von Ravensburg, but neither proposal seems satisfactory and the identity and origins of the artist remain uncertain.
Master of the Mornauer Portrait
probably active about 1460 - 1488
Paintings by Master of the Mornauer Portrait
This painting reflects the simple and direct manner of German portraiture of the late fifteenth century. It was once thought to be a portrait by Holbein of the German religious reformer Martin Luther, but the sitter is in fact Alexander Mornauer, town clerk of Landshut in Bavaria; the letter he h...
Not on display