Master LCz (Master of the Strache Altar), active c. (1480 - 1510)

• Was an anonymous late 15th-century German Renaissance printmaker.
• Only twelve engravings by his hand are extant.
• Their virtuosity establishes him as a talented artist whose work marks a stylistic transition between that of Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer.
• Master L. Cz. today is most often associated with the anonymous artist known as the Master of the Strache Altar, to whom four paintings of passion scenes have been ascribed.
• This artist has been identified with a fair amount of certainty as Lorenz Katzheimer, a Bamberg painter.
• Lorenz was probably a relative of Wolfgang Katzheimer, another Bamberg artist whose works show marked similarities to those of the Master of the Strache Altar.
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