Gregor Erhart

Gregor Erhart (c. 1465–1540), born at Ulm the son of sculptor Michel Erhart, was a leading wood and stone sculptor spanning Late Gothic and Renaissance. He worked in his father's workshop before settling in Augsburg in 1494.

In the imperial city patronised by the Fugger, he gained master's rights in 1496 and married Anna Mair, a kinswoman of Hans Holbein the Elder.

His works include the Marian altar at Kaisheim Abbey (1502), a painted Magdalen now in the Louvre, and the seated Schutzmantelmadonna of about 1510. He handed his Augsburg workshop to his son Paul in 1531 and died in 1540.