Hans Valkenauer

Hans Valkenauer (born 1448; died after 1518) was a German sculptor, working from Salzburg from about 1480 and specialising in funerary monuments in the late Gothic style.

[1] Valkenauer became known for creating a large number of tomb monuments, often in the form of sculpted slabs of red marble, and mainly in Salzburg.

His work also shows the influence of the anonymous German engraver referred to as "Master E. S." by art historians and the Dutch sculptor Nikolaus Gerhaert.

[2] In 1487, city officials paid him six florins, a significant amount of money, to create an anti-semitic Judensau sculpture.

The design was in the form of a 6-metre diameter crown supported by 12 columns each bearing a sculpture of one of the interred historical figures.

Valkenauer's tomb monument for Wolfgang von Polheim in St Anna's, Oberthalheim
A surviving figure from Valkenauer's work for Maximilian I