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Konrad Witz

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Healing Mirror Altar: St. Bartholomew

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Healing Mirror altar: Esther before Ahasuerus

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Healing Mirror Altar: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

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Saint Christopher

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Crucifixion

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Mary Altar: The Annunciation

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Hellenica World, Paintings, Drawings Peter Altar: The Miraculous Draught

Hellenica World, Paintings, Drawings Peter Altar: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, detail

Hellenica World, Paintings, Drawings Peter Altar: Adoration of the Magi

Hellenica World, Paintings, Drawings Peter Altar: The Release of Peter

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Emperor Augustus and the Sybil of Tibur

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King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

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The Synagoge

Drawings

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Mary with the child in the sitting-room

Konrad Witz (1400/1410 probably in Rottweil, Germany – winter 1445/spring 1446 in Basel, Switzerland) was a German-born painter, active mainly in Basel, Switzerland. His 1444 panel, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (a portion of a lost altarpiece) has been credited as the earliest extant faithful portrayal of a landscape in European art history, being based on observation of real topographical features.[1]

Witz is most famous for painting three altarpieces, all of which survive only partially. The earliest is the Heilspiegel Altarpiece of about 1435 (today mostly in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, with isolated panels in other collections). The next is the Altarpiece of the Virgin (c. 1440), which has been associated with panels now in Basel, Nuremberg, and Strasbourg (Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame). Witz's final altarpiece is the St. Peter Altarpiece of 1444, painted for St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva, and now in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, which contains his most famous composition, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes.

The painting of St. Christopher (Kunstmuseum, Basel; illustrated) does not seem to be related to these major altarpieces. Other independent works by Witz and his followers can be found in Naples, Berlin, and New York (Frick Collection).


Notes

Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eych to Durer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish painting on European Art, 1430-1530. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. 58. ISBN 978-0-500-23883-7

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