SCHONGAUER, MARTIN

In 1465 he was in Leipzig in the service of the University, then he was in Colmar whence in 1489 he moved to the nearby Breisach, where he remained until his death. His only dated work is the large Madonna in the Colmar Museum, painted by him in 1473, which shows clear references to the art of Rogier van der Weyden who was likely his master. Greater is his importance as the author of as many as 115 highly significant engravings, important not Dürer (v.) but also for their dissemination throughout Europe, including Italy, where they were known even to Michelangelo who, according to Vasari, in his youth would have copied Schongauer’s *St. Anthony Tormented by Demons*.