Huber was a German/Austrian painter, draughtsman and woodcut artist, who, after Altdorfer, was the most important member of the Danube school. He worked in Regensburg and Passau. Few paintings by him are known and it is in woodcuts and drawings that his lyrical approach to landscape can best be seen.
Huber was a native of Feldkirch, the subject of this drawing and the setting for his St Anne Altar.
Like Altdorfer, Huber also produced plausibly naturalistic representations of imaginative landscapes. But his enchanting vies elicit a greater interest in the atmosphere trough the use of voids and short quick strokes of pen.
Huber was a German painter, draughtsman and woodcut artist, who, after Altdorfer, was the most important member of the Danube school. He worked in Regensburg and Passau. Few paintings by him are known and it is in woodcuts and drawings that his lyrical approach to landscape can best be seen.
The sitter of this portrait, Jacob Ziegler, was a scholar who lived a wandering life in Europe. In his old age he lived in the house of the Bishop of Passau. This portrait was executed here when he was about seventy years old.
Wolf Huber, a Danubian artist, painted a retable with scenes from the life of the Virgin, of which only two panels survive: the Flight into Egypt in Berlin, and a Visitation (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich). In the Flight into Egypt, the Holy Family seems to pose on a rocky outcropping as if it were a statuary group. Huber’s figures recall the contemporary, often brilliantly coloured limewood figures of Austria and Germany.
The painting is an example of the lyricism and visual liberties of the masters of the Danube School.
