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Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer (active ca. 1480-1500)


• Was an anonymous German painter, engraver, and stained glass designer.
• He has been tentatively identified as Wolfgang Beurer.
• Wolfgang Beurer was identified on the basis of a number of prints signed with the initials W.B. with an entwined serpent.  
• This discovery was used by Buchner in 1927 as the starting-point for establishing the artistic identity of this anonymous
master.
• In 1985 Anzelewsky identified W.B. as Wolfgang Beurer on the basis of a drawing of A Man on Horseback in the Muzeum Narodowe in Gdansk, which is dated 1484 and has annotations by Dürer.
• Beurer is held to have painted a series of panels illustrating the life of Saint Sebastian in Mainz cathedral.
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