Hans Multscher, Nikolaus Gerhaerts van Leyden, Veit Stoss, Bavarian sculptor
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(Reichenhofen, ca. 1400 Ulm, 1467) Swabian sculptor and painter, one of the most significant figures of the late Gothic that replaced the International style. Netherlandish sculpture and painting had a great influence on his art. He was probably trained in the lodge of the Aachen cathedral, where he may have taken part in the sculptural decoration of the chancel. His most important works are the statues of the eastern facade of the town hall of Ulm (1427-1433), the statues of the western portal of the Münster of Ulm (1429), a model for the tombstone of Louis VII, Prince of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1430), the Karg altar (1433), the altar of Wurzach (1437), the Madonna of Landsberg (1440), and the altar of Sterzing (1456-1458).
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Nikolaus Gerhaerts van Leyden
(Leyden, ca. 1430 - Vienna 1473). His first known work was Archbishop Sirck's tombstone in Trier. Between 1463-1467 he worked in Strassburg. In 1465-1466 he executed the high altar of the Münster of Konstanz, since then destroyed; in 1467, the Crucifix of Baden-Baden. Frederick III invited him to Vienna that year, and between 1469-1473 he carved a tombstone for the emperor which was placed in the Stephanskirche. Nikolaus Gerhaerts transmitted the realism of Nederlandish art into Central Europe.
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Veit Stoss
(1430/1440 - Nuremberg, 22 September, 1533) A sculptor, painter, and engraver. He became a citizen of Nuremberg in 1473. In 1477 he moved to Cracow, where he completed the high altar of the church of Our Lady by 1489. He made several stone and bronze tombstones in Poland, such as King Casimir's late Gothic red marble baldachinned tombstone in the cathedral of Wawel in 1492 or Filippo Buonaccorsi's (Callimachus') bronze epitaph in the Dominican church of Cracow. In 1496 he moved back to Nuremberg, where he fulfilled several commisions, both local and foreign. In 1503 he became involved in a forgery of official documents, and did not receive significant commissions until the 1510s. He carved the Annunciation for the Lorenzkirche of Nürnberg between 1517 and 1518, then between 1520-1523 the Nativity altar, later taken to Bamberg, for the order of his son Andreas, Carmelite prior of Nuremberg (earlier a prior in Buda).
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Bavarian sculpture around 1500
Some of the most significant sculptors of the southern German region worked in Bavaria around 1500. Gregor Erhardt (†1540) and Erasmus Grasser (ca. 1450 after 1526) were important exponents of late Gothic realistic sculpture. The style of Hans Leinberger (1470/1480 - ca. 1530), which was softer and incorporated Renaissance elements, was also quite influential.
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