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 Hans Multscher

(b Reichenhofen, Bavaria, c. 1400; d Ulm, before 13 March 1467). German sculptor.

Multscher mentions his birthplace on the inscribed band, originally a predella, of the Karg altarpiece in Ulm Cathedral (1433) and on two wings of the so-called ‘Wurzach Altar’ (1437) at Reichenhofen in the Allgäu. The town archives of Leutkirch, written between 1405 and 1437, record that Multscher belonged to the ‘Freien Leute auf Leutkircher Heide’, a commune of free peasants who had been able to preserve their independence because they were the direct descendants of Konigsfreie, who had always been free. Under a charter of Emperor Ludwig in 1337, these men were direct subjects of the Empire and had the right of free movement ‘to Imperial cities or other towns’.

 
 

Prayer on the Mount of Olives
1437
Staatliche Museen, Berlin