Hans Bolsterer

In addition to members of the nobility, including Emperor Charles V, he portrayed a wide variety of ordinary citizens in Nuremberg and Frankfurt.

His medals and ornaments are of a high artistic quality, but his larger works generally receive a lower rating.

These include a tomb for Bishop Weigand of Redwitz, at Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, and a "cartouche with female masks" (c.1550), which is now at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

The museum also possesses a coat of arms for the Knight, Wolf Müntzer von Babenberg, which is attributed to Bolsterer on the basis of style.

He generally signed his works with the initials "HB", with a cross shaped "master's mark" in between.