Bad Wurzach Baden-Württemberg Germany

Hans Multscher combines sculpture and painting in masterpieces of the new naturalistic style in a giant altarpiece for a church at Wurzach in 1437.

Executed with a crude, earthy realism, crowds of massive, block-like, and occasionally grotesque figures act out their roles in religious dramas with violence and intensity of expression.

Multscher's work is first documented in Ulm in 1427,.