Gabriel Angler (1405-1483)

• Was a Gothic German panel and fresco painter.
• Angler completed an apprenticeship with Berthold Landauer in Nördlingen.
• From 1430 he worked in Munich.
• In 1434 he became the first town painter, and in 1449 he bought a property on the north side of Marienplatz in Munich.
• Since 1460 he was restricted in his activity by an eye disease; after 1474 no more works can be found.
• Angler's work marks a break with the surface projection of the early Gothic.
• Anglerstrasse in the Schwanthalerhöhe district of Munich is named after him. 

• Gabriel Mälesskircher and Michael Wolgemut are among his students. 
• The "Tabula magna" (1444/45) (parts in the Bavarian National Museum, in the Germanic National Museum, in the Church of Bad Feilnbach and in the Bode Museum Berlin), created for the Tegernsee Monastery, is now considered to be his main work.

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