Wolf Traut, ca. (1485–1520)

• Traut was a German painter and draughtsman.
• He was working in the circle of Dürer.
• According to the biographer Johann Neudörfer, Traut was the son of the painter Hans Traut.
• Around 1505 he was in Dürer’s workshop, having probably completed his training, and together with Hans Baldung Grien and Hans Schäufelein he was involved in the design of prints to illustrate Ulrich Pinder’s book Der beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie.
• By about 1511 Traut was working as an independent master on the altarpiece for the high altar of the Johanneskirche in Nuremberg.
• Traut’s most important work, The Holy Kinship Altarpiece, was painted in 1514 for the Tuchmacherkapelle in Nuremberg (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich).
• Traut continued to produce designs for books associated with Dürer’s studio and in 1515 collaborated with that artist on the major graphic project of The Triumphal Arch for the Emperor Maximilian.
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