Ludwig Schongauer (c. 1440–1494) was a German

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and engraver. Schongauer was born in

Augsburg Augsburg ( , ; ; ) is a city in the Bavaria, Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich. It is a College town, university town and the regional seat of the Swabia (administrative region), Swabia with a well ...

into an Alsatian family of artists, later settling in

Colmar Colmar (; ; or ) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department ...

. His father Caspard was a

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, and he had three brothers. Two of his brothers Georg and Paul became goldsmiths themselves, while his third brother was the painter

Martin Schongauer Martin Schongauer (c. 1450–53, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schön ("Martin beautiful") or Hübsch Martin ("pretty Martin") by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important ...

. Both Martin and Ludwig are thought to have been pupils of the painter Caspar Isenmann.

Selected Known Works

* ''Wing of an altarpiece: The Arrest of Christ'' * ''Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection''

References

External links

Wing of an altarpiece: The Arrest of Christ

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection
1440s births 1494 deaths 15th-century German painters German male painters {{germany-painter-stub