About Jost Haller
Lived 1450 – 1485 (aged 34–35). Jost Haller was a French painter.
Jost Haller was a 15th-century Gothic painter from Alsace, active in the years 1440–1470, first established in Strasbourg, then in Metz, and in Saarbrücken. He is also called The painter of the knights [not "The painter of knights", or Le peintre de chevaliers].
Haller's name was forgotten until 1980, when art historian Charles Sterling rediscovered it and put it on a number of paintings and illuminated manuscripts that were hitherto attributed to anonymous masters, most famously among them the Tempelhof Altarpiece (ca. 1445) from Bergheim, Haut-Rhin (not to be confused with the Tempelhof district of Berlin!), an oil on panel painting now kept in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar. Haller is also thought to be the author of the fresco of Saint Michael defeating Satan, high and wide, of St Thomas' Church, Strasbourg.
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Who was Jost Haller?
German painter from Alsace (15. century)
When was Jost Haller born?
Jost Haller was born in 1450 in Strasbourg.
When did Jost Haller die?
Jost Haller died in 1485.
What was Jost Haller's occupation?
Jost Haller was a painter.
What nationality was Jost Haller?
Jost Haller was French.
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