Wolf Huber is one of the leading masters of the Danube School. He studied painting with his father and, like many young German artists of those years, spent “years of wandering” in the Danube and Alpine regions. From the beginning of the 1510s Khuber worked in Passau at the court of the prince-bishop, in the 1520s he visited Vienna. Huber’s first works were related mainly to graphics.
Among his drawings are particularly remarkable landscapes, which are always interested in the master. In the future, already in paintings he loved to use the architectural and natural background. However, the landscape did not predominate in his works, as, for example, Altdorfer, he only helped focus attention on the main thing. Lyrical landscapes with fine chiaroscuro gradations, architectural, multi-figured compositions organically subordinated to the main, accentuating the viewer’s attention.
Other famous works: “Flight into Egypt.” 1520’s. State museums, Berlin; “Meeting Mary and Elizabeth.” 1520’s. Bavarian National Museum, Munich; “Portrait of Jakob Ziegler.” 1540’s. Museum of the History of Art, Vienna.
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