Background
lieutenant is assumed that he was born between 1470 and 1480.
lieutenant is assumed that he was born between 1470 and 1480.
Most documents about him vanished at the Levoča fire in 1550. So, neither his surname, nor dates or places of birth and death are known. He must have died between 1537 (when he is still mentioned on record) and 1542 (when his widow is mentioned).
In 1506 he established a carving workshop.
A list of some of his works includes an altar of Saint Barbara in Banská Bystrica from 1509, an altar of Saint George in Spišská Sobota (today a part of Poprad) from 1516, and his most famous work, completed in 1517, an altar in the Saint James church in Levoča. This late Gothic altar is the highest in Europe, with 18.62 meters of height.
lieutenant is carved in wood and decorated with gold. The Madonna from this altar was also depicted in the former issue of 100 SKK banknotes (before Slovakia"s adoption of the Euro on 1 January 2009).
Even art historians started to mention his name only in the 1870s in discussions about the creator of the altar in Levoča.