Christ taking leave of his Mother.

Wolf Huber painted this Christ Taking Leave of His Mother around 1519 for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Huber was a leading painter of the Danube school alongside Altdorfer, developing a distinctively expressive approach to landscape and religious narrative centered in Passau. The oil medium allowed for rich tonal transitions and glazed layers of color that created luminous depth impossible with the older tempera technique. Such devotional panels served both liturgical contexts in churches and chapels and private devotional use in the homes of wealthy families who maintained personal altars and oratories.

The panel demonstrates Huber's characteristic emotional intensity and dramatic landscape treatment, with the farewell scene rendered in the expressive, angular style of his Danube school manner.