Master of Messkirch (Meßkirch) (active c. 1515-1540)

• Was an anonymous German Renaissance painter.
• The so-called Master of Meßkirch is named after the eleven altarpieces he painted for the Stiftskirche St. Martin in Meßkirch between 1536 and 1540.
• Master of Messkirch may have studied under an artist from the circle of Albrecht Dürer, such as Hans von Kulmbach or Hans Leonhard Schäufelein.
• From the 1530s onwards his works seem to display familiarity with contemporary northern Italian painting.
• Hans Baldung Grien was also influential to his work.
• Throughout the master's career his figures had Manneristic proportions.
• While early on his colors were bright and iridescent, his coloration became calmer and more muted in his last years.
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