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PRUCKENDORFER, Hans - b. 0 ?, d. 1518 Passau - WGA

PRUCKENDORFER, Hans

(b. 0 ?, d. 1518 Passau)

German painter, active in Pasasau, probably identical with the anonymous painter referred to as Monogrammist HP.

Pruckendorfer belonged to the Danube school, an artistic movement emerged along the Danube in Germany and Austria during the first half of the sixteenth century. The most famous representatives of the Danube School are Albrecht Altdorfer in Regensburg, Wolf Huber in Passau, and Lucas Cranach the Elder in Saxony.

The Holy Family in a Forest
The Holy Family in a Forest by

The Holy Family in a Forest

Hans Pruckendorfer was a German painter of the Danube School. He is probably identical with the anonymous painter referred to as Monogrammist HP.

This small panel, monogrammed HP and dated 1514, is a typical example of paintings from the Danube School. The painter’s main interest is in the landscape from the alpine foothills. The romantic character of the picture does not result from the gathering of the Holy Family in the midst of a wooden landscape but it is evoked by the landscape.

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