Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer

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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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Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Original, Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, Mainz. Visited in 2022.

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master HB with the Griffin’s Head, Christ Blessing Children, 1525-1550

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of Johann von Rückingen (recto), 1487

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of Johann von Rückingen (recto), 1487

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of Johann von Rückingen (recto), 1487

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Figure with Coat-of-arms (verso), 1487

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Scenes from the Life of St. Sebastian, around 1490

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Figure with Coat-of-arms (verso), 1487

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Man, 1495 – 1500

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Man, 1495 – 1500

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Man, 1495 – 1500

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Woman, 1495 – 1500

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Woman, 1495 – 1500

Master WB identified Wolfgang Beurer, Portrait of a Woman, 1495 – 1500