Der hl. Bartholomäus befreit die armenische Königstochter vom Teufel

Wolfgang Katzheimer the Elder was a Bamberg painter active in the 1470s–90s, known primarily for his narrative panels depicting saints' lives with unusual topographic specificity — his views of Bamberg and Nuremberg in altarpiece backgrounds are among the earliest detailed urban views in German painting. This panel depicting Saint Bartholomew freeing the Armenian king's daughter from a demon belongs to the Bartholomew legend derived from the Golden Legend: the apostle is said to have converted the Armenian royal family after exorcising a demon from the princess. Katzheimer's narrative is set against a meticulously rendered Franconian landscape.

Katzheimer employs a tempera-oil mixed technique with careful attention to topographic detail in the background. The exorcism scene foregrounds the dramatic confrontation between saint and demon, rendered with expressionistic energy unusual for German painting of this decade. The demon's form is fantastical, with the grotesque physiognomy common to German late Gothic diabolical imagery.