Master W. B. (

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late 15th century in

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) was an

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German painter, engraver, and

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designer of the late Gothic era. He has been tentatively identified as Wolfgang Beurer, about whom very little is known.

References

* Schmidt, Hans M.; J. P. Filedt Kok
"Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists."
In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 27, 2012; subscription required). *

External links

Entry for Wolfgang Beurer
on the

Union List of Artist Names The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artist ...

Information about Master W. B.
from the Dommuseum Mainz (in German) 15th-century German painters Anonymous artists 15th-century German engravers Year of birth unknown {{Germany-painter-stub