Berthold Landauer (sometimes given as Berchtold) (

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1396, d. 1430/1432) was a German painter active in

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. His name is first mentioned in civic registers,

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lists, and municipal accounts in 1396. In that year he was accepted as a citizen, taking a civic oath under the title of "painter". Tax registers of the St. Sebaldus district record that a "Ber

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painter" lived there; according to an entry in 1408's edition of the '' Harnischbuch'', "Berchtold painter" was required to provide a suit of

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upon his conscription into the military. In 1413 is seen the name "Berchtold Landauer" for the first time. In 1421 the master was listed for the first time as a householder. Landauer is known to have married, and to have had three sons; the eldest, Marcus (d. 1468), is included in the recruitment list of 1429 as "Marcus painter". He was dead by 1432, in which year a letter from Sebald Schreyer, master of the church of St.

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, remembers him as "the late Master Berchtold painter". Some scholars have attempted to link Landauer with the Master of the Imhoff Altar; these attempts are based on the presence of the two artists in the same city at the same time, and are generally unsupported by stylistic evidence.Master of the Imhoff Altar: Information and Much More from Answers.com
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Berthold Landauer
14th-century births 1430s deaths 15th-century German painters German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub