Hans Pleydenwurff (1420 – 1472)

• Was a German painter.
• His father was probably Kunz Pleydenwurff, a well-respected painter and part-time mayor in Bamberg.
• Since 1457, Hans lived in Nuremberg where he established a new style of realism, influenced by Northern Renaissance painters.
• He probably was a teacher of Michael Wolgemut. 

• His son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, born in 1460, operated with Michael Wolgemut for the woodcuts of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle.

• Another son, Sebald, settled in Eisleben, his profession is unknown.
• Hans died at Nuremberg in 1472. 

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