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(2) Gregor Erhart
(b ?Ulm, ?1470; d Augsburg, 1540). Son of (1) Michel Erhart. The first documentary evidence for him is in 1494, when the ‘sculptor Gregorius’ was granted citizenship of Augsburg. The attributional difficulties surrounding his work arise from the narrow basis for a reconstruction of his oeuvre: the only known authenticated work was the Virgin of Mercy (Berlin, destr. 1945), which probably came from the high altar retable (1502) of the Cistercian abbey church at Kaisheim. Otto’s attribution (1943) of an impressive group of early works to Gregor was based on an untenable birth date, c. mid-1460s, and these works have now been attributed to Michel Erhart. The group includes the Blaubeuren altarpiece (see (1) above). The Blaubeuren shrine sculptures are not, however, obviously consistent with Michel Erhart’s slim, elaborately formed figure types. Schädler (1965) assigned the altarpiece to the ‘group style’ of the workshop, and Broschek (1973) argued in favour of a strong contribution by the workshop, including that of Gregor.
Part of the Erhart family
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