Wilhelm Stetter

[[File:Strasbourg MOND, Le Christ devant Pilate (sans cadre).JPG|thumb|''Christ before Pilatus'', 1535 (Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg )]] '''Wilhelm Stetter''' (1487–1552) was a German Renaissance painter from Alsace. He was born and died in Strasbourg.

Stetter was long known by the notname '''Master W. S. with the Maltese cross''' until he was identified in 1952 by the scholar Jean Rott (1911–1998).<ref name="Zafran">{{cite journal|last1=Zafran|first1=Eric M.|title=Wilhelm Stetter's "Adoration of the Magi" and a Consideration of Stetter's Painting|journal=The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery |year=1988 |volume=46 |pages=99–108 |jstor=20169044}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Le maitre W. S. à la croix de Malte, Wilhelm Stetter [Texte imprimé] / par Jean Rott|url=http://www.sudoc.fr/186322062|website=sudoc.fr|accessdate=21 January 2017}}</ref> As well as a painter, stylistically influenced by Hans Baldung and Albrecht Dürer, Stetter was a member of the Order of Saint John since 1510 (first as an acolyte, then ordained as a priest in 1512).<ref name="Zafran"/>

Works by Stetter are on display in the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame in his hometown, in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stetter, Wilhelm}} Category:16th-century German painters Category:1487 births Category:1552 deaths Category:German Renaissance painters Category:Painters from Strasbourg Category:German male painters Category:16th-century German Roman Catholic priests Category:Knights Hospitaller