Portrait of Hans Geyger

Wolf Traut painted this Portrait of Hans Geyger around 1501 in Nuremberg. Traut was a Nuremberg painter and printmaker who worked in the artistic milieu dominated by Albrecht Dürer. His portraits document the appearance of Nuremberg's citizenry during the city's cultural golden age. The tempera-on-panel medium required a carefully gessoed surface and was painted in fine, precise layers, yielding a luminous, jewel-like surface of great durability.

Oil on panel with Nuremberg precision in the rendering of the sitter's features. The portrait reflects the high standards of the Nuremberg school under Dürer's dominant influence.