Hans von Kulmbach
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Artist Hans von Kulmbach (originally Hans Suess of Kulmbach, Franconia) was born around 1480 and died in 1528 in Nuremberg. Hans von Kulmbach was the artist who created the Kraków St. John's Altar (inscription: Johannes Suess civis norimbergensis). He received instruction by Jacopo de Barbiri, who for a time worked in Nuremberg. Von Kulmbach then apprenticed with Albrecht Dürer and after Dürer retired from painting altarpieces in 1510, Kulmbach received most of those important commissions. Kulmbach had his own workshop in Nuremberg and at times worked in Kraków. He also created artworks for emperor Maximilian I and for Margrave Casimir Hohenzollern von Brandenburg-Kulmbach. His best works were stained-glass windows in churches, such as the Maximilian stained-glass, Margrave stained-glass at St. Sebald in Nuremberg, the Welser stained-glass at the Frauenkirche and the Nikolaus altar at Lorenzkirche. In 1511 he finished the St. Mary's altar at Skałka in Kraków. The Catherine and St. John's altar also in Kraków, are among his best works.
