Michael Ostendorfer, ca. (1490–1549)

• Was a German painter, graphic artist and xylographer.
• Stylistically, he belongs to the Danube school and probably trained with Albrecht Altdorfer.
• He was employed by the Elector Palatine, Friedrich II, in Neumarkt, as a court painter.

• He moved to Regensburg in 1519, was married to Anna Wechin.

• During the 1520s, he worked for several printing shops.

• He appears to have been intermittently active as a court painter back in Neumarkt from 1535 to 1544, when Friedrich II moved to Heidelberg.

• At that time he was also known to be working for the printer and publisher, Hans Guldenmund.

• During 1549 he acquired "Bürgerrechten" (citizenship) in Regensburg, which had become Protestant in 1542. 

• He died in 1559, still in poverty and debt.

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