Hans Multscher

{{Short description|German sculptor and painter}} {{Infobox person | name = Hans Multscher | image = Hans Multscher - Flügel-Innenseite des Wurzacher Altars (rechts unten) - Google Art Project.jpg | caption = ''Die Auferstehung Christi'', Gemäldegalerie, Berlin | birth_name = | birth_date = ca. 1400 | birth_place = Reichenhofen (today Leutkirch im Allgäu) | death_date = 1467 | death_place = Ulm | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = bringing realism to German art, replacing International Gothic | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Hans Multscher''' (ca. 1400–1467) was a German sculptor and painter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Emmerson |first=Richard K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhyOAQAAQBAJ |title=Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia |date=2013-10-18 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-77519-2 |pages=473–474 |language=en}}</ref>

Multscher was born in Reichenhofen (today Leutkirch im Allgäu).

He made himself acquainted with new artistic styles from northern France and the Netherlands, and became a free citizen of the city of Ulm in 1427. There, he married Adelheid Kitzin the same year. He ran his own business as a painter and sculptor, together with his brother Heinrich Multscher.

Multscher died in Ulm.

== Works == <gallery> File:Hans Multscher Maria Magdalena Liebieghaus 1039.jpg|''Holy Mary Magdalen'' by Hans Multscher, Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main File:Ulm-Muenster-SchmerzensMann-061104.jpg|''Man of sorrows'' (Copy), central column of the western portal of the ''Ulm Minster'' File:Ulm-Rathaus-KaiserFenster-061104.jpg|''Group of emperors'', eastern window of the city hall of Ulm, Hans Multscher, 1527-1533 File:Scharenstetten.jpeg|Side altar of the Multscher School in the Parish Church of Scharenstetten (originally in the Ulm Minster) File:Madonna Kind Nachfolge H.Multscher.jpg|Madonna and Child, from Multscher's atelier, 1450, Mainfränkisches Museum, Würzburg </gallery>

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