Hans Süss von Kulmbach was the most prominent painter to emerge from Albrecht Dürer's Nuremberg workshop. They collaborated closely, but Kulmbach was never a slave to Dürer's style. Kulmbach's paintings and stained-glass designs display vivid color and a tenderness uniquely his own. Kulmbach probably arrived in Nuremberg around 1505, apprenticing first to a painter and printmaker. His liquid, lumi
