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(2) Erhard Altdorfer
(b c. 1480/85; d Schwerin, 1561/2). Brother of (1) Albrecht Altdorfer. He probably occupied a place in his brother’s Regensburg workshop c. 1506, the year in which he signed and dated an engraving of a Lady with a Peacock Coat of Arms (B. 416, 1). In 1512 Erhard was documented as ducal court painter in Schwerin, a post that he held until his death. His signed and dated three-part woodcut of a Tournament (?1512–13; unique copy, Schwerin, Mecklenburg. Landesbib.; Hollstein, no. 91) was modelled on woodcuts (1506, 1509; B. 124 [293], 126 [294]) by Lucas Cranach the elder. Cranach’s Bible illustrations (Wittenberg, 1523) were the basis for Erhard’s most extensive surviving work, 82 woodcut illustrations for the Low German Bible (Lübeck, 1531–4; e.g. Hollstein, no. 75) published by Ludwig Dietz (c. 1504–59), in which he also included mountainous and forested landscape settings similar to those he knew and probably painted in Regensburg or in other regions of the Danube.
Part of the Altdorfer family
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